Performance of a Brazilian population on the test of functional health literacy in adults

• Autor(a) principal: Carthery-Goulart, Maria Teresa
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Outros Autores: Anghinah, Renato, Areza-Fegyveres, Renata, Bahia, Valeria Santoro, Brucki, Sonia Maria Dozzi, Damin, Antonio, Formigoni, Ana Paula, Frota, Norberto, Guariglia, Carla, Jacinto, Alessandro F, Kato, Eliane Mayumi, Lima, Edson P, Mansur, Letícia, Moreira, Daniel, Nóbrega, Ana, Porto, Claudia Selitto, Senaha, Mirna L H, Silva, Mari-Nilva Maia da, Smid, Jerusa, Souza-Talarico, Juliana N, Radanovic, Marcia, Nitrini, Ricardo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Revista de Saúde Pública
• Texto Completo: https://www.revistas.usp.br/rsp/article/view/32645
• topic: Adulto; Escolaridade; Compreensão; Educação; Testes de Linguagem; Questionários; Estudos de Validação; Educação em Saúde; Educação de Pacientes como Assunto; Adulto; Escolaridad; Comprensión; Educación; Pruebas del Lenguaje; Cuestionario; Estudios de Validación; Educación en Salud; Educación del Paciente como Asunto; Adult; Educational Status; Comprehension; Education; Language Tests; Questionnaires; Validation Studies; Health Education; Patient Education as Topic

OBJECTIVE: To analyze the scoring obtained by an instrument, which evaluates the ability to read and understand items in the health care setting, according to education and age. METHODS: The short version of the Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults was administered to 312 healthy participants of different ages and years of schooling. The study was conducted between 2006 and 2007, in the city of São Paulo, Southeastern Brazil. The test includes actual materials such as pill bottles and appointment slips and measures reading comprehension, assessing the ability to read and correctly pronounce a list of words and understand both prose passages and numerical information. Pearson partial correlations and a multiple regression model were used to verify the association between its scores and education and age. RESULTS: The mean age of the sample was 47.3 years(sd=16.8) and the mean education was 9.7 years(sd=5; range: 1 - 17). A total of 32.4% of the sample showed literacy/numeracy deficits, scoring in the inadequate and marginal functional health literacy ranges. Among the elderly (65 years or older) this rate increased to 51.6%. There was a positive correlation between schooling and scores (r=0.74; p