Dufour Isabelle, Lacasse Anaïs, Chouinard Maud-Christine, Chiu Yohann et Lafontaine Sarah. (2019). Health literacy and use of healthcare services among community-dwelling older adults living with chronic conditions. Clinical Nursing Studies, 7, (2), p. 79-86.
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URL officielle: http://dx.doi.org/doi.org/10.5430/cns.v7n2p79
Résumé
Objective: Only 12% of the Canadian older adults have adequate health literacy (HL) to understand and handle health information sufficiently. A descriptive correlation study was conducted to describe HL and to examine its relationship with healthcare services use among community-dwelling older adults living with chronic conditions in a distant region of Quebec, Canada.
Methods: Data was collected through self-report instruments including the Health Literacy Questionnaire (HLQ), which assesses HL on nine dimensions.
Results: Based on health characteristics of the nine HLQ dimensions, the results showed significant differences between subgroups of participants as well as a negative association between the HLQ dimension Appraisal of Health Information and the number of consultations with healthcare professionals (incidence rate ratio: 0.66; p = .027).
Conclusions: The results highlight the need to improve older adults HL, in order to improve their health status and use of healthcare services.
| Type de document: | Article publié dans une revue avec comité d'évaluation |
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| Volume: | 7 |
| Numéro: | 2 |
| Pages: | p. 79-86 |
| Version évaluée par les pairs: | Oui |
| Date: | 2019 |
| Sujets: | Sciences de la santé Sciences de la santé > Sciences infirmières |
| Département, module, service et unité de recherche: | Départements et modules > Département des sciences de la santé > Module des sciences infirmières |
| Mots-clés: | health literacy, aged, community dwelling, Healthcare services, Health Literacy Questionnaire, chronic diseases, littéracie en santé, personnes âgées, logement communautaire, services de santé, Questionnaire sur la littératie en santé, maladies chroniques |
| Déposé le: | 24 avr. 2019 00:37 |
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| Dernière modification: | 10 févr. 2023 18:53 |
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