Literacia em saúde e cuidados pós-infarto agudo do miocárdio

Abstract

Introduction: Myocardial infarction (AMI) is one of the main cardiovascular complications and requires immediate treatment to avoid a worse prognosis. The search for health care carried out by infarcted people is related to the way they experience and understand the illness and how much it affects their routine of life. Objectives: To relate the knowledge and care of post-AMI people to health literacy. Method: qualitative descriptive research, carried out from February to May 2018 with 12 young adults. For data collection, a semi-structured questionnaire, interview script and field diary were used. For the treatment of the data, a qualitative research software was used, for later analysis of the content. Results: after the analysis, six classes emerged, and the class named “e (Un) knowledge and (Un) care in relation to Health Literacy was chosen for presentation. Conclusions. Low health literacy is directly related to the understanding that people have about their disease and the relationship with care, influencing their perception of the severity of the disease and, consequently, the search for health services.