Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem ()

Functional health literacy and adherence to the medication in older adults: integrative review

  • Nidia Farias Fernandes Martins,
  • Daiane Porto Gautério Abreu,
  • Bárbara Tarouco da Silva,
  • Deisa Salyse dos Reis Cabral Semedo,
  • Marlene Teda Pelzer,
  • Fabiana Souza Ienczak

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/0034-7167-2016-0625
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 70, no. 4
pp. 868 – 874

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ABSTRACT Objective: to characterize the national and international scientific production on the relationship of Functional Health Literacy and the adherence to the medication in older adults. Method: integrative review of literature, searching the following online databases: Scientific Electronic Library Online (SCIELO); Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Literature (LILACS); Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online (MEDLINE); and Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), in June 2016. We selected 7 articles that obeyed the inclusion criteria. Results: all articles are from the USA. The inappropriate Functional Health Literacy affects the non-adherence to medication; however, there are several strategies and interventions that can be practiced to change this relationship. Conclusion: nursing needs to explorefurther this theme, since it can exert a differentiated care for adherence to medication in older adults, considering the literacy.

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