Medication literacy: A conceptual model.

Autor: Neiva Pantuzza LL; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Medicamentos e Assistência Farmacêutica, Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 6627 Presidente Antônio Carlos Ave., Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Electronic address: laispantuzza@gmail.com., Nascimento ED; Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Departamento de Psicologia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 6627 Presidente Antônio Carlos Ave., Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil., Crepalde-Ribeiro K; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Medicamentos e Assistência Farmacêutica, Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 6627 Presidente Antônio Carlos Ave., Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil., Botelho SF; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Medicamentos e Assistência Farmacêutica, Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 6627 Presidente Antônio Carlos Ave., Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil., Parreiras Martins MA; Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 6627 Presidente Antônio Carlos Ave., Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil., Camila de Souza Groia Veloso R; Hospital das Clínicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 110 Professor Alfredo Balena Ave., Santa Efigênia, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil., Gonzaga do Nascimento MM; Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 6627 Presidente Antônio Carlos Ave., Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil., Vieira LB; Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas, Universidade Federal de Alfenas, 700 Gabriel Monteiro da Silva St, Centro, Alfenas, Minas Gerais, Brazil., Moreira Reis AM; Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 6627 Presidente Antônio Carlos Ave., Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
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Zdroj: Research in social & administrative pharmacy : RSAP [Res Social Adm Pharm] 2022 Apr; Vol. 18 (4), pp. 2675-2682. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Jun 07.
DOI: 10.1016/j.sapharm.2021.06.003
Abstrakt: Background: Medication literacy reflects the specific literacy skills necessary to act on medication-related information. A comprehensive and clear conceptual model that reflects medication literacy is lacking. Conceptual models describe the components that represent a construct, allowing for its understanding and providing a rationale for its measurement.
Objectives: To propose a conceptual model to support the development of an instrument to measure medication literacy.
Methods: This is a three-phase methodological study. A literature review was conducted to identify the components that should be part of the preliminary conceptual model. Subsequently, the importance of its components was judged on a Likert-5 scale. Then, the model was refined, and the dimensions and subdimensions of medication literacy were defined.
Results: Forty-five experts were included, with a mean age of 39.9 (SD = 10.5) years, most of them females (86.7%) and pharmacists (80%). All components of the preliminary conceptual model were considered important to extremely important by most experts. "Dosing information", "medication name", and "processing the information received about their medication and acting upon medication instructions" were the components considered most important. In the refinement phase, we identified that the construct has four dimensions - functional literacy, communicative literacy, critical literacy, and numeracy, which include the subdimensions to access, understand, evaluate, calculate, and communicate medication-related information.
Conclusions: The conceptual model allowed identifying the components that represent medication literacy, which will support the development of an instrument for measuring the construct in Brazil.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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