EXAMINING THE LEVEL OF HEALTH LITERACY AMONG INDIVIDUALS SUFFERING FROM CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE

Year 2022, Volume: 3 Issue: 3, 268 - 277, 03.12.2022

Sevda Korkut , Songül Karadağ , Cansu Yılmaz , Abdurrahman Oğuzhan

Abstract

Objective: Health literacy is important for health protection, prevention of diseases, effective treatment of diseases and improvement of quality of life. This study was conducted to determine the level of general health literacy of individuals with CVD.
Method: This descriptive study was conducted with 440 patients who were admitted to the cardiology clinic/polyclinic. The data of the study were collected by using Patient Identification Form and Adult Health Literacy Scale.
Results: The mean total score of the scale was found to be 12.79 (3.97). The total score of the health literacy of the individuals differed in terms of gender, educational level, occupation, income status, smoking, duration of smoking, BMI, the presence of additional chronic disease, whether or not they were on a diet and how well they had adapted to that diet. It was also found that there was a significant correlation between the total score of the health literacy scale with age, and duration of smoking (p<0.01).
Conclusion: Health literacy of the participants score was at a moderate level. In addition, it was determined that the factors such as age, gender, education level, income level, smoking, the presence of additional chronic disease and whether or not they were on a diet all play an effective role in health literacy level of the participants. The low level of health literacy leads to many problems. Therefore, it is advisable to make necessary trainings and evaluate the effectiveness of these trainings in order to increase the level of health literacy of individuals.

Keywords

Health literacy, nursing, cardiovascular disease

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Kardiyovasküler Hastalığı Olan Bireylerin Sağlık Okuryazarlığı Düzeyinin İncelenmesi

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Amaç: Sağlık okuryazarlığı, sağlığın korunması, hastalıkların önlenmesi, hastalıkların etkin tedavisi ve yaşam kalitesinin iyileştirilmesi için önemlidir. Bu çalışma kardiyovasküler hastalığı olan bireylerin genel sağlık okuryazarlık düzeylerini belirlemek amacıyla yapılmıştır.
Yöntem: Bu tanımlayıcı çalışma kardiyoloji kliniğine/polikliniğine başvuran 440 hasta ile gerçekleştirilmiştir. Araştırmanın verileri Hasta Tanımlama Formu ve Yetişkin Sağlık Okuryazarlığı Ölçeği kullanılarak toplanmıştır.
Bulgular: Ölçeğin toplam puan ortalaması 12.79 (3.97) olarak bulunmuştur. Bireylerin sağlık okuryazarlığı toplam puanı cinsiyet, eğitim düzeyi, meslek, gelir durumu, sigara kullanımı, sigara içme süresi, BKİ, ek kronik hastalık varlığı, diyet yapma durumu ve diyete uyum gösterme durumuna göre farklılık göstermiştir. Ayrıca sağlık okuryazarlığı ölçeği toplam puanı ile yaş ve sigara içme süresi arasında anlamlı bir ilişki olduğu bulunmuştur (p<0.01).
Sonuç: Katılımcıların sağlık okuryazarlığı skorunun orta düzeyde olduğu belirlenmiştir. Ayrıca katılımcıların sağlık okuryazarlığı düzeyinin yaş, cinsiyet, eğitim düzeyi, meslek, gelir düzeyi, sigara içme, ek kronik hastalık ve diyet programının olması gibi çeşitli faktörlere göre değişiklik gösterdiği belirlenmiştir. Sağlık okuryazarlığının düşük düzeyde olması birçok soruna yol açmaktadır. Bu nedenle bireylerin sağlık okuryazarlık düzeylerinin artırılması için gerekli eğitimlerin yapılması ve bu eğitimlerin etkinliğinin değerlendirilmesi önerilmektedir.

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Sağlık okuryazarlığı, hemşirelik, kardiyovasküler hastalık

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