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Letramento em saúde acerca de infecções sexualmente transmissíveis em população jovem de áreas periféricas no contexto amazônico
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2020-02-19) PEREIRA, Ana Trindade; CARVALHO, Jacira Nunes; http://lattes.cnpq.br/9434086419077532; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5464-2434
Functional Health Literacy (FHL) is defined as the ability to obtain, process and understand basic information and services in order to make appropriate decisions regarding health and medical care (CHEHUEN NETO et al., 2019). The Amazon region is experiencing an accelerated growth of STIs, with no studies addressing the possible causes for this behavior. Objective: To evaluate health literacy about STIs in the population of young SUS users who live in peripheral areas in the Amazon context. Methodology: This is a descriptive field study, with a qualitative approach. The population consisted of 34 young people, who live in the District of Water of the Montese neighborhood, aged between 15 and 24 years. The Instrument for Health Literacy was applied, translated and adapted by Lisiane Paskulin et al. (2011) for use in the Brazilian context. The initial sociodemographic data were analyzed using descriptive statistics. The qualitative analysis of the contents of the answers to open questions was categorized according to its different dimensions, considering the nature and its frequency was distributed in five dimensions: The understanding about Sexually Transmitted Infection; Search for information about STI; Understanding of STI information; Sharing the information received; The repercussions of information for young people. The project was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the ICS - UFPA opinion, n°. 3,567,868. Regarding to the characterization of participants among young people, 82.35% were aged between 15 and 18 years old, there was a preponderance of females, in sexual orientation, 85.29% said they were heterosexual and in marital status, 61, 77% were single. Regarding education, 44.20% reported having completed high school and 64.70% of families had an income between 1-2 minimum wages, being 82.35% of young people not working. About the number of partners, 52.95% of young people answered that they had not yet started sexual life, which pointed to the identification of sexual abstinence among young people as a protective factor against exposure to STIs. Functional health literacy was identified as insufficient, more specifically the difficulties of young people in relating causes and effects, lack of knowledge about signs and symptoms and an unconcern regarding the severity of the epidemiological situation of sexually transmitted diseases. The young people's responses in the different dimensions of the analyzed FHLrevealed apparent conformity and passivity about information about STIs. Final considerations: As a result, insufficient functional health literacy in all dimensions was revealed in the studied population. Therefore, there was a need for improvements with regard to health education and the involvement of various spaces such as the school and the Basic Health Unit, acting with actions to improve the health literacy status of young people.
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Letramento funcional em saúde dos idosos acerca de acidentes por queda e sua prevenção
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2017-12) NEVES, Aline Bento; GONÇALVES, Lucia Hisako Takase; http://lattes.cnpq.br/6191152585879205; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5172-7814; ARAÚJO, Eliete da Cunha; http://lattes.cnpq.br/5906453187927460; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1312-4753
Background: Fall accidents, especially amongst the elderly, are considered to be events of external cause of deaths that are responsible for about five million deaths each year, which represents about 9% of the worldwide mortality. In Brazil, this event is the third cause of death. Health literacy relates to knowledge, motivation, and one’s competence in searching, comprehending and analyzing health related information so they can eventually make decisions over health promotion, disease prevention and improvement in quality of life. Aim: Finding out the level of health literacy amongst an elderly group on the topic of fall accidents and its prevention. Methods: This is an exploratory-descriptive study using a qualitative approach. The participants are 80 elderly that were also public square goers, from these, 40 elderly were interviewed in the Public Square A (located in a middle class neighborhood) and the other forty were interviewed in Public Square B (located in a low-income neighborhood). The interviews used the instrument “Health Literacy”, translated and adapted by Lisiane Paskulin et al. for use within the Brazilian scenario. The sociodemographic data was analyzed using descriptive statistics. The qualitative analysis over the content of the responses to the open questions were categorized according to its different dimensions, considering its nature and frequency. The research project was approved by UFPA - Hospital Barros Barreto’s Research Ethics Committee, under the protocol number 2.095.048. Results: In between both groups there was a predominance of the female gender. A higher formal education rate was found amongst the elderly interviewed in the Public Square A, with the years of formal education varying from 5 to 9 (62,5%), against 1 to 4 years of formal education amongst the elderly found in Public Square B (42,5%). The majority of the elderly in both public squares were house owners. The analysis of the health literacy data was distributed in five dimensions: finding fall accidents information, comprehending fall accidents information, sharing fall accidents information, repercussion of the fall accidents information to the elder, and participation in health education groups. Health literacy in both the middle class neighborhood group and in the low income neighborhood group reached a low level. Conclusion: The low level of health literacy over fall accidents and its prevention was found to be a very important lack in health education. The low percentage of responses from the elderly when questioned over the different dimensions of health literacy revealed an apparent conformity and passivity over general health information.