Assessment and adaptation of health information material for elderly population with low educational level: An integrative review

• Autor(a) principal: Townsend, Sabrine Amaral Martins
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Gabriel, Rosângela
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: letrônica
• Texto Completo: https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/letronica/article/view/37512
• topic: Readability; Health information material; Text complexity; Elderly; Low educational leve; Low educational level; Leiturabilidade; Materiais informativos em saúde; Complexidade textual; Idosos; Baixo nível educacional

Assessments and adaptations of the main elements to provide adequate comprehension of health information material have been implemented, pursuing the improvement of readability (linguistic complexity level of a text) and legibility (related to size/type of fonts and text format). This article aims to present an integrative review of scientific articles about assessments and adaptations of health information materials for elderly individuals with low educational level, published between 2015-2019. A search in Google Scholar, PubMed and Portal de Periódicos da Capes databases was conducted, resulting in 13 articles about assessment of materials and 5 articles about adaptation of information materials. We observed the use of softwares to measure text complexity and associations between legibility and readability according to the demands of age and health literacy. We verified terminology used to refer to readability issues is not consensual yet and there is still little emphasis for discussions about the impact of educational level of target readers. Lack of prediction about target readers may hinder new knowledge acquisition for these individuals, weakening the intended health literacy. Finally, to develop more research relating factors as educational level and health literacy are suggested. In Portuguese, there is a gap in the creation of measures of readability, in the elaboration of tasks and in the correlations between reading measures and the educational and age contexts.