Medication literacy: A conceptual model
| Autor: | Kennedy Crepalde-Ribeiro, Liliana Batista Vieira, Laís Lessa Neiva Pantuzza, Ronara Camila de Souza Groia Veloso, Maria Auxiliadora Parreiras Martins, Adriano Max Moreira Reis, Elizabeth do Nascimento, Stephanie Ferreira Botelho, Mariana Martins Gonzaga do Nascimento |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Adult
media_common.quotation_subject Applied psychology Pharmaceutical Science Health literacy Pharmacy Pharmacists 030226 pharmacology & pharmacy Literacy 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Critical literacy Numeracy Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Functional illiteracy media_common Communication Models Theoretical Health Literacy Scale (social sciences) Conceptual model Female Construct (philosophy) Psychology Brazil |
| Zdroj: | Research in socialadministrative pharmacy : RSAP. 18(4) |
| ISSN: | 1934-8150 |
| Popis: | 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. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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