Abstract
Introduction: Arterial hypertension is the most common cardiovascular disease. In the prevention and treatment of arterial hypertension, people need to obtain relevant information primarily from health professionals. However, they are able to implement these into behavior and action aimed at promoting health only if they have a certain level of health literacy. The article is aimed at presenting the results of a pilot study with a focus on the average score of the scales in individual domains of health literacy within the entire selected sample of respondents.
File and methods: Data collection within the pilot study was carried out using the Slovak version of the standardized measurement tool Health Literacy Questionnaire (HLQ™) on a sample of 96 respondents with the average age 49.3 years.
Results and conclusion: The highest mean scores were obtained in the HLQ™ domains of health social support and understanding health information to the extent that the individual knows what to do. On the contrary, we found the lowests scores in domains focused on sufficient formation for healthcare, active care of one‘s health and navigation in the health care system.
The results also show that only 30 % of respondents follow a salt-restricted diet and 59 % of respondents measure their blood pressure at home. The most common risk factors that concern the respondents are stress, lack of exercise and overweight or obesity. In the prevention and therapy of arterial hypertension, health literacy has an irreplaceable place as a person‘s ability to acquire, understand and use health information for making the right decisions in favor of his health (Tab. 3, Fig. 1, Ref. 27). Text in PDF www.lekarskyobzor.sk.
KEY WORDS: health literacy, Health Literacy Questionnaire™ – HLQ™, arterial hypertension, patient.
Lek Obz 2023, 72 (4): 172-177
CITE
MAGERČIAKOVÁ M., BARTOŠOVIČ I., ZRUBÁKOVÁ K. et al.: Pilot study of determining the rate of health literacy in patients with arterial hypertension. Lek Obz 2023, 72 (4): 172-177
Mariana MAGERČIAKOVÁ 1, Ivan BARTOŠOVIČ 2,3, Katarína ZRUBÁKOVÁ 1,2, Mária NOVYSEDLÁKOVÁ 1, Ivana IVÁNKOVÁ BARTOŠOVIČOVÁ 3
1 Katolícka univerzita Ružomberok, Fakulta zdravotníctva, Katedra ošetrovateľstva, vedúca PhDr. M. Ižová, PhD.
2 Vysoká škola zdravotníctva a sociálnej práce sv. Alžbety Bratislava, Ústav zdravotníckych disciplín, zástupkyňa pre študijný odbor ošetrovateľstvo prof. PhDr. H. Koňošová, PhD.
3 OZS Skalica, ambulancia všeobecného lekára pre dospelých
