Produção científica acerca da influência do letramento em saúde durante o período gestacional

Abstract

Health Literacy (HL) is defined as skills in accessing, understanding, evaluating, and using health information and knowledge, because of the action of teaching or learning to read and write. To identify scientific production about the influence of health literacy on the quality of care offered to pregnant women. This is a integrative review, carried out in the LILACS (Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences), MEDLINE (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrievel System Online) and BDENF (Nursing Database) databases available in the Virtual Health Library, with the combination of the descriptors: health literacy AND assistance AND pregnancy. After data collection, analysis was carried out forming two (02) categories. From reading the selected articles, two (02) categories were formed: “Impacts of inadequate HL on care during the gestational period”: Inadequate health literacy in women with depression can impact their ability to identify psychological symptoms, clinically relevant; The absence of a relationship between functional health literacy levels and knowledge about syphilis. Fear of emergency cesarean section and lack of knowledge about the symptoms of PPD (Postpartum Depression); Inadequate HL demonstrated a significant association with non-adherence to prescribed pharmacotherapy; Difficulty understanding and appropriately applying the health education information they received during prenatal care. And the “Health interventions in the gestational period in light of the HL”: Provide information on prenatal care to pregnant women; Group prenatal care can, in fact, provide several advantages compared to individual care during pregnancy; Pre-pregnancy awareness of conception emerged as the main contributor to the observed variation in estimated levels of maternal health literacy. Health professionals need to be more attentive to the recognition and evaluation that involves health literacy in a multidimensional context. The HL strategy, together with the promotion of functional health literacy (LFS), emerges as a means of empowering people, promoting awareness, and learning for autonomy, in addition to strengthening communities. Improve the quality of information provided by health professionals to ensure effective education, understanding and improvement considering the HL. There is an absence of a relationship between levels of functional health literacy and knowledge about syphilis, group prenatal care, promotion of oral health care behaviors during pregnancy, adoption of healthy habits related to preparation for childbirth and to the management of health complications.