Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: KARYNA REIS DO VALLE

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : KARYNA REIS DO VALLE
DATE: 10/11/2022
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Videoconferência
TITLE:
Study of the Association between Health Literacy and SARS-CoV-2 Infection.

KEY WORDS:
Health Litteracy, Coronavírus.

PAGES: 85
BIG AREA: Ciências da Saúde
AREA: Enfermagem
SUMMARY:
ABSTRACT
A novel coronavirus, first named novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), was discovered in 2019,
after cases of pneumonia with unknown cause appeared in Wuhan, China. It was later named
SARS-CoV-2, which caused the COVID-19 pandemic. The behavior of the population
regarding the adoption of non-pharmacological measures to prevent contamination by COVID-
19 was one of the greatest public health challenges to prevent the spread of the disease and the
exhaustion of health services. In this sense, to know the level of Health Literacy (HL) of the
population and investigating the association with SARS-CoV-2 infection is a fundamental
condition to define strategies to face the COVID-19 pandemic and also future pandemics. For
this evaluation, a questionnaire based on preventive behavior for COVID-19 and the SAHLPA-
18 (Instrument for the evaluation of HL) were applied to a population that sought care in
primary care health services. RT-PCR exam and serological testing for COVID-19 were also
performed on all participants to identify active or past infection. Partial data analysis showed
that out of a total of 359 participants, the median age was 41 years, 53.8% female and 57.1%
non-white. Of these, 69.9% reported that they partially followed the recommendation of social
distancing and isolation and 93.6% responded that they considered the use of masks important,
however 45.2% did not know about the correct type of mask to use. 17.8% were infected with
SARS-CoV-2 and 53.2% had inadequate HL. There was no significant association between HL
and COVID-19 infection, but we identified an association between inadequate HL and low
education, male gender and color (non-white) (p⋜ 0.05). It is concluded that although the
association between HL and COVID-19 has not been identified, the analysis of this health
determinant is essential for the definition of strategies to face pandemics. In addition, it should
be considered that it is possible that the HL assessment instrument used in this study is not the
most appropriate, alerting to the need to build a specific instrument for the analysis of literacy
in infectious diseases and with pandemic potential.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Externo à Instituição - ELIÃ PINHEIRO BOTELHO - UFBA
Externa à Instituição - CECÍLIA MARIA IZIDORO PINTO - UFRJ
Presidente - 1716846 - VANESSA FARIA CORTES
Notícia cadastrada em: 31/10/2022 14:41
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