Quality of life at work for health professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Objective: to evaluate the quality of life at work of health professionals in direct and indirect care of COVID-19 cases.

Methods: this was a cross-sectional study with 156 health professionals from a referral hospital. The relationship between sociodemographic and work-related variables and perceived stress and domains of the Quality of Life at Work Scale was investigated using inferential statistics and regression.

Health literacy and self-efficacy associations with non-adherence to dental treatment among young adults.

The aim of this study was to investigate associations of health literacy (HL), general self-efficacy (GSE), and sociodemographic variables with non-adherence to dental treatment among Brazilian young adults. This is a cross-sectional study based on a cohort study of 248 young adults aged 19 to 25 years followed up in an earlier study. The participants completed the perceived general self-efficacy scale (GSE), a questionnaire on socioeconomic and demographic variables and were examined for oral conditions.

Health literacy of people with spinal cord injury: a systematic review.

Study Design: Systematic review.

Objective: To systematically review the evidence on health literacy (HL) of people diagnosed with spinal cord injury (SCI).

Methods: PubMed, Cochrane Library, Web of Science and Embase databases were used to identify studies published from 1974 to 2021.

The Multidimensionality of Low Health Literacy in Older Adults: A Scoping Review of International Studies.

This scoping review aims to map the dimensions encompassing the low health literacy (HL) of older adults, describing their respective causes and consequences. A three-step search strategy was conducted using 16 databases from nine portals and reference lists. Of the 4,259 identified studies, 2,845 were screened and 29 (1%) were included.

Psychometric properties of the Brazilian version of the European Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire short form.

The aim of this study was to analyze the psychometric properties of the Portuguese Brazilian version of the instrument for measuring health literacy European Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire short form (HLS-EU-Q16). The study sample consisted of 783 Brazilian adults with a mean age of 38.6 years.

Competencies of health personnel for the practice of health literacy in Brazil: A Delphi consensus survey.

Objective: The aim of this study was to identify a set of competencies of health personnel for the practice of health literacy in Brazil.

Methods: Scoping review and online interviews with healthcare practitioners, followed by three rounds of the modified e-Delphi method with health literacy specialists from November/2020 to March/2021. During the rounds, the items were revised, new items added for review, and their importance was rated on a five-point Likert scale in an online form.

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation for lay people: Evaluation of videos from the perspective of digital health literacy.

Objective: to analyze the quality indicators and technical content of the videos for lay people posted on the YouTube platform, on cardiopulmonary resuscitation in adults and their audiovisual production regarding the principles of digital health literacy.

Method: a descriptive and exploratory study, which selected videos recorded between December 2015 and April 2021. They were analyzed by indicators of the production of audiovisual material, considering the American Heart Association guidelines and the principles of digital health literacy.

Professional Responsiveness to Health Literacy: A Scoping Review.

Background: Difficulty in understanding and using health information can harm the patient and increase the cost of care provided. So, this study classified and mapped the characteristics and interventions that make health care professionals responsive to the patient's health literacy.

Methods: Medline (PubMed), CINAHL (EBSCO), PsycInfo, ERIC (ProQuest), Lilacs (BVS) and EMBASE (Elsevier) were searched using a combination of controlled descriptors.

Evaluating the psychometric properties of the eHealth Literacy Scale in Brazilian adults.

Objective: To translate and adapt the eHealth Literacy Scale for the cultural reality of Brazil and to evaluate the psychometric properties of its Brazilian Portuguese version.

Methods: The instrument was translated and adapted to Brazilian Portuguese and applied to a sample of 502 individuals from 18 to 80 years old who lived in the surrounding areas of six Family Health Units of a city in the countryside of the state of São Paulo, Brazil. The data was evaluated using exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, item response theory, and instrument reliability measures (Cronbach's alpha and McDonald's omega).

Quality of life of master's and doctoral students in health.

Objectives: to assess the quality of life of master's and doctoral students in health.

Methods: this is a cross-sectional study carried out with 503 master's and doctoral students from the Brazilian Center-West, using the WHOQOL-BREF to analyze their quality of life. Analysis included Cronbach's alpha coefficient, confirmatory factor analysis and bivariate and multivariate analyzes.

Psychometric properties of the adapted instrument European Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire short-short form.

Objective: to investigate the psychometric properties of the Brazilian Portuguese version of the health literacy questionnaire European Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire short-short form (HLS-EU-Q6) in Brazilian adults.

Method: the instrument was translated and pre-tested in a sample of 50 individuals. Subsequently, it was applied to a sample of 783 adult individuals.

Psychometric properties of health related quality of life measures in acute coronary syndrome patients: a systematic review protocol.

The objective of this systematic review is to evaluate the psychometric properties and clinical utility of patient-reported outcome measures that assess health-related quality of life in patients with a clinical diagnosis of acute coronary syndrome.

Comprehension of the education handout and health literacy of pacemaker users.

Objective: To verify the comprehension of the education handout and the level of Functional Health Literacy of individuals with cardiac pacemaker (PM) and whether there is correlation between the comprehension and Functional Health Literacy (FHL).

Method: Cross-sectional study with 63 individuals with PM who answered to comprehension tests of the handout, literacy assessment (SAHLPA-50) and cognition (MMSE). Measurements of dispersion, Pearson correlation and multiple linear regression were calculated.

Functional health literacy and knowledge of renal patients on pre-dialytic treatment.

Objective:: to analyze the functional health literacy (FHL), i.e., understanding and knowledge about chronic renal disease of 60 patients in pre-dialytic treatment.

GSTM1 and GSTT1 genes null polymorphisms in kidney cancer susceptibility: evidence based on a meta-analysis.

Introduction: Renal cancer is a complex and multifactorial oncourologic disease.

Objective: To conduct a meta-analysis in order to investigate the association of GSTM1 and GSTT1 genes null polymorphisms in renal cancer.

Method: Case-control studies in humans, published from 1999 to 2013, that investigated the association of GSTM1 and GSTT1 genes null polymorphisms in renal cancer were grouped in order to make of this meta-analysis.