Assessing Health Literacy of Elderly with Chronic Diseases during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Makassar City, Sulawesi Selatan, Indonesia

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JKP Jurnal Keperawatan Padjajaran Pub Date : 2021-03-30 DOI:10.20527/DK.V9I1.9325

B. Bahtiar, W. Saputri, Rostika Salenda Paseleng, M. Akbar, Restu Abady

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Abstract

The elderly are vulnerable to experience health problems and physical deterioration characterized by high rates of chronic diseases among the elderly. Health literacy ability becomes crucial for the elderly with chronic diseases to treat and maintain their health. This study was aimed to describe the literacy levels of the elderly with chronic diseases during the COVID-19 pandemic in Makassar. The method of study was a descriptive survey with a cross-sectional study. The research population is elderly with chronic diseases in Makassar city, and the samples are 124 elderly with age ≥60 years old and suffering chronic diseases more than six months in two selected sub-district. The research was conducted a cross-sectional survey, and descriptive univariate data analysis was used. The instrument was used Indonesia's health literacy short-form survey questionnaire (HLS-EU-SQ10-IDN). The result of this study reveals that the health literacy levels vary: insufficient criteria by 33.99%, problematic criteria by 49.2%, sufficient criteria by 16.1%, and perfect criteria by 0.8%. The results prove that the health literacy level of the elderly with chronic diseases is insufficient. This study concluded that the dominant level of the health literacy of the elderly with chronic diseases is inadequate and problematic. Health education program to improve their literacy is necessarily improved during the COVID-19 outbreak

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评估印度尼西亚苏拉威西西西拉丹望加锡市2019冠状病毒病大流行期间慢性病老年人的健康素养

老年人容易出现健康问题和身体恶化，其特点是老年人中慢性病的发病率很高。健康素养能力对老年慢性病患者的治疗和保持健康至关重要。本研究旨在描述2019冠状病毒病大流行期间望加锡慢性病老年人的识字水平。研究方法为描述性调查和横断面研究。研究人群为望加锡市患有慢性病的老年人，样本为124名年龄≥60岁且患有6个月以上慢性病的老年人。本研究采用横断面调查，采用描述性单变量数据分析。该工具采用印度尼西亚卫生知识简短调查问卷(HLS-EU-SQ10-IDN)。本研究结果显示，健康素养水平的差异:不充分标准占33.99%，有问题标准占49.2%，充分标准占16.1%，完善标准占0.8%。结果表明，我国老年慢性病患者健康素养水平不足。本研究的结论是，慢性病老年人健康素养的主导水平不足且存在问题。在2019冠状病毒病爆发期间，提高他们识字率的健康教育计划必须得到改善

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