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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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Literacia para a saúde do cuidador informal na pandemia de COVID-19 no contexto amazônico
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2023-11-10) ARAÚJO, Lucianne do Socorro Nascimento de; SOUSA, Fabianne de Jesus Dias de; http://lattes.cnpq.br/9925044069366557; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8151-3507
Introduction: It is a priority to include the health literacy of informal caregivers in public health policies, with potential benefits for the health of the caregiver and the care provided to the elderly. This study aimed to evaluate the health literacy of informal caregivers of elderly people cared for in a university hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: Cross-sectional, observational, descriptive, correlational and quantitative approach with 37 informal caregivers of elderly people treated at the Geriatrics Service of the Hospital Universitário João de Barros Barreto. The following instruments were used: sociodemographic and European Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire. For data processing and analysis, we used the statistical programs Epi Info version 7.2.5.0 (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, United States) and GraphPad Prism version 8. Regarding descriptive statistics, the following were performed: absolute and relative frequencies for all variables and, in the case of numerical variables, we calculate the mean, median, standard deviation, minimum and maximum, with their respective 95% Confidence Intervals. In inferential statistics, the non-parametric chi-square tests of adherence were applied for univariate categorical comparison and G test for bivariate categorical comparisons. Considering the numerical comparisons, ANOVA 1 criterion was used since they met the assumptions of normality (assessed by the Bartlett test). An alpha statistical significance level of 5% was considered for all analyzes carried out. Results: Of the 37 informal caregivers, they were women (91.8%) with an average age of 48 years, married (62.1%), with high school education (43.2%), living in the same house with the elderly person being cared for (45, 9%) with good health status (54.0%) self-report that the provision of care to the elderly was not affected (56.7%), they take care of one person (45.9%), their father/mother (64 .8%). As for the elderly people cared for, the majority were women (72.9%) with an average age of 78.2 (±13.2) years. The LS of informal caregivers was 21.7, proving to be inadequate. The domain with the best score was “Health Promotion” (23.6) and “Disease Prevention” (20.1), the worst. Conclusion: The results showed that the health literacy of informal caregivers is inadequate, highlighting the need for educational actions for this population with a view to improving the care provided to elderly people.