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STUDENT : KARYNA REIS DO VALLE
DATE: 28/08/2023
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Videoconferência
TITLE:
Association between Health Literacy and SARS-CoV-2 Infection

KEY WORDS:
Health Litteracy, COVID-19, Social Determinants of Health

PAGES: 110
BIG AREA: Ciências da Saúde
AREA: Enfermagem
SUMMARY:
ABSTRACT
Introduction: A coronavirus, initially named novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), was discovered
in 2019, after cases of pneumonia with unknown cause 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. Objective: Herein, to know the level of Health Literacy (HL)
and investigate the association with SARS-CoV-2 infection is a fundamental condition to define
strategies to face the COVID-19 pandemic and also future pandemics. Méthod: For this
evaluation, a clinical exam to identify preventive behavior for COVID19, the SAHLPA-18 (The
Short Assessment of Health Literacy for Portuguese-speaking Adults) and RT-PCR and the
serological test to detect the active or past COVID-19 infection. Results: The preliminary data
analysis showed that of a total of 359 participants the median age was 41 years, 53.8% were
female and 57.1% were non-white people. Of these, 69.9% reported that they partially met 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 was
reccomended to use. Among the total population studied, 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 skin color (non-white) (p⋜ 0.05). Conclusion: 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:
Externa à Instituição - KATARINNE LIMA MORAES
Interno - 2001652 - JULIANO TEIXEIRA MORAES
Interna - 1680498 - MARCIA CHRISTINA CAETANO ROMANO
Presidente - 1716846 - VANESSA FARIA CORTES
Notícia cadastrada em: 17/08/2023 14:05
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