Health literacy among older adults in Portugal and associated sociodemographic, health and healthcare-related factors

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Autor(a) principal: Costa, Andreia
Data de Publicação: 2023
Outros Autores: Feteira-Santos, Rodrigo, Alarcão, Violeta, Henriques, Adriana, Madeira, Teresa, Virgolino, Ana, Arriaga, Miguel, Nogueira, Paulo Jorge
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/56621
Resumo: © 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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spelling Health literacy among older adults in Portugal and associated sociodemographic, health and healthcare-related factorsHealth literacyAgingHealthcareHealth promotion© 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).Although the health literacy level of the general population was described recently, little is known about its specific levels among older adults in Portugal. Therefore, this cross-sectional study aimed to investigate the levels of health literacy demonstrated by older adults in Portugal and explore associated factors. Using a randomly generated list of telephone numbers, adults aged 65 years or more living in mainland Portugal were contacted in September and October 2022. Sociodemographic, health and healthcare-related variables were collected, and the 12-item version of the European Health Literacy Survey Project 2019–2021 was used to measure health literacy. Then, binary logistic regression models were used to investigate factors associated with limited general health literacy. In total, 613 participants were surveyed. The mean level of general health literacy was (59.15 ± 13.05; n = 563), whereas health promotion (65.82 ± 13.19; n = 568) and appraising health information (65.16 ± 13.26; n = 517) were the highest scores in the health literacy domain and the dimension of health information processing, respectively. Overall, 80.6% of respondents revealed limited general health literacy, which was positively associated with living in a difficult household financial situation (4.17; 95% Confidence Interval (CI): 1.64–10.57), perceiving one’s own health status as poorer (7.12; 95% CI: 2.02–25.09), and having a fair opinion about a recent interaction with primary healthcare services (2.75; 95% CI: 1.46–5.19). The proportion of older adults with limited general health literacy in Portugal is significant. This result should be considered to inform health planning according to the health literacy gap of older adults in Portugal.This study is part of the research programme of the General Foundation of University of Salamanca through the International Centre on Aging (CENIE) within the framework of the Programme for a Longevity Society (0551_PSL_6_E), a project co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) through the Interreg VA Spain-Portugal Programme (POCTEP) 2014–2020.MDPIRepositório da Universidade de LisboaCosta, AndreiaFeteira-Santos, RodrigoAlarcão, VioletaHenriques, AdrianaMadeira, TeresaVirgolino, AnaArriaga, MiguelNogueira, Paulo Jorge2023-03-09T17:01:54Z20232023-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10451/56621engInt. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20, 41721661-782710.3390/ijerph200541721660-4601info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-11-08T17:04:21Zoai:repositorio.ul.pt:10451/56621Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T22:07:08.672792Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Health literacy among older adults in Portugal and associated sociodemographic, health and healthcare-related factors
title Health literacy among older adults in Portugal and associated sociodemographic, health and healthcare-related factors
spellingShingle Health literacy among older adults in Portugal and associated sociodemographic, health and healthcare-related factors
Costa, Andreia
Health literacy
Aging
Healthcare
Health promotion
title_short Health literacy among older adults in Portugal and associated sociodemographic, health and healthcare-related factors
title_full Health literacy among older adults in Portugal and associated sociodemographic, health and healthcare-related factors
title_fullStr Health literacy among older adults in Portugal and associated sociodemographic, health and healthcare-related factors
title_full_unstemmed Health literacy among older adults in Portugal and associated sociodemographic, health and healthcare-related factors
title_sort Health literacy among older adults in Portugal and associated sociodemographic, health and healthcare-related factors
author Costa, Andreia
author_facet Costa, Andreia
Feteira-Santos, Rodrigo
Alarcão, Violeta
Henriques, Adriana
Madeira, Teresa
Virgolino, Ana
Arriaga, Miguel
Nogueira, Paulo Jorge
author_role author
author2 Feteira-Santos, Rodrigo
Alarcão, Violeta
Henriques, Adriana
Madeira, Teresa
Virgolino, Ana
Arriaga, Miguel
Nogueira, Paulo Jorge
author2_role author
author
author
author
author
author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Costa, Andreia
Feteira-Santos, Rodrigo
Alarcão, Violeta
Henriques, Adriana
Madeira, Teresa
Virgolino, Ana
Arriaga, Miguel
Nogueira, Paulo Jorge
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Health literacy
Aging
Healthcare
Health promotion
topic Health literacy
Aging
Healthcare
Health promotion
description © 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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