Abstract

MORAIS, Carminda et al. Chain health: (Co)construction of literacy courses in health and quality of life. Revista Portuguesa de Enfermagem de Saúde Mental [online]. 2020, n.spe7, pp.88-96. ISSN 1647-2160.  https://doi.org/10.19131/rpesm.0252.

BACKGROUND: Considering that citizenship in health enshrines the right and duty of citizens to actively participate in the health care process, it was sought to promote literacy in health and quality of life in the inmates, in a logic of action research. AIM: to develop cognitive, social skills that promote health decision making; encourage the search/mobilization of health information; individual and collective determinants of chronic disease management. METHODS: Quasi-experimental study using participatory and quantitative methodologies. We resorted to the interview with the Directorate of a prison establishment in the North of Portugal and the focus group with the inmates. We applied questionnaires of "Health Literacy in Portugal", Quality of Life Assessment and an instrument of sociodemographic characterization. RESULTS: The average age of prisoners is 39.2 + 10.8 years, ranging from 19 to 55 years.The level of "inadequate/problematic" literacy was the most frequent in the various dimensions. In QOL, the "General Health" and "Physical Function" dimensions presented the lowest values ??(47.4%) and the highest (71.3%). The (co) construction of the "therapeutic education" program was set up in four areas: global health, hygiene, well-being; food and health; disease management; and Management/understanding of health information CONCLUSIONS: the project focused on cross-sectoral, multiprofessional cooperation in whole-of-government and whole-of-society logics. The results are guiding the priority intervention, keeping the focus on a bottom-up logic, oriented to the domains of general and emotional health, using team building. It is in the reassessment phase, resorting to strategies used in the initial diagnosis.

Keywords : Quality of life; Health literacy; Prisons.

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