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- Title
Associação entre letramento funcional em saúde e adesão ao tratamento medicamentoso da hipertensão arterial sistêmica na atenção primária à saúde.
- Authors
Resende Carvalho, Tatiana; Ribeiro, Luiz Cláudio
- Abstract
The study analyzes the association between functional health literacy and adherence to antihypertensive medication. Cross-sectional study, with application of a form to 340 users of the Family Health Strategy, according to sociodemographic characteristics, related to the patient, the disease and treatment, the team and the health service. Medication adherence was measured by MMAS-8 and functional health literacy was measured by B-TOFHLA. The Poisson regression model was used. The prevalence of non-adherence was 24.1% (95%CI: 19.7-28.5). Low functional health literacy was found in 80.3% of hypertensive individuals. Factors associated with non-adherence were not believing in the importance of medications, more frequent taking of medications per day, not understanding the guidelines and explanations given by health professionals, and greater difficulty in talking to professionals. It is concluded that, with changes based on the complexity of the therapeutic regimen, and still identifying the limitations of users in relation to access and understanding of the information and guidelines provided, the health team can develop strategies that favor communication between health professionals. health and users, thus compensating for the low levels of functional health literacy.
- Subjects
CLINICAL drug trials; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE agents; CONFIDENCE intervals; CROSS-sectional method; PRIMARY health care; HEALTH literacy; SEX distribution; QUESTIONNAIRES; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; COMMUNICATION; DRUGS; DISEASE prevalence; PATIENT compliance; POISSON distribution
- Publication
Revista de Atencao Primaria a Saude, 2020, Vol 23, Issue 4, p734
- ISSN
1516-7704
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.34019/1809-8363.2020.v23.16894