Emergency Medical Officer, Emergency Medicine Department, SRM Institute of Medical Sciences & Hospital, Chennai, India.
School of Health and Society, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.
COPD. 2020 Jun;17(3):318-325. doi: 10.1080/15412555.2020.1772739. Epub 2020 Jun 8.
The effects of health literacy in developing self-management skills among people suffering from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a topic that has been lightly tread upon. The advent of tobacco smoking and air pollution caused by the industrialisation era has caused a startling increase in the rates of incidence and prevalence of those diagnosed with COPD. Despite advancement in medical treatment, prevention and health care systems COPD poses a great challenge to public health now than ever before. This systematic review examines eight articles that have dealt with the role health literacy plays in developing self-management skills. This study found that there is no relationship between the adequacy of health literacy and the knowledge or learning of a self-management skill. The relationship between heath literacy and developing skills such as correct technique of inhaler use, awareness of an exacerbation, usage of home-based technological support (telehomecare) needs further delving. Remarkably, it also revealed that health literacy sensitive materials improved self-management skills in all the levels of health literacy. More research is required in identifying literacy sensitive methods that would be beneficial to all disregarding of the level health literary. A wider range of self-management skills pertaining to prevention, maintenance and control needs to be explored.
健康素养在培养慢性阻塞性肺疾病（COPD）患者自我管理技能方面的影响是一个尚未得到充分关注的话题。烟草烟雾和工业化时代空气污染的出现，导致 COPD 的发病率和患病率惊人地上升。尽管在医疗、预防和保健系统方面取得了进展，但 COPD 对公众健康构成的挑战比以往任何时候都大。本系统评价研究了 8 篇涉及健康素养在培养自我管理技能方面作用的文章。这项研究发现，健康素养的充分性与自我管理技能的知识或学习之间没有关系。健康素养与诸如正确使用吸入器技术、对恶化的认识、使用家庭技术支持（远程医疗）等技能的发展之间的关系需要进一步研究。值得注意的是，它还表明，对健康素养敏感的材料提高了所有健康素养水平的自我管理技能。需要进一步研究确定对所有健康素养水平都有益的敏感素养方法。需要探索更广泛的自我管理技能，包括预防、维持和控制。
