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Introduction: The therapeutic noncompliance or lack of adherence to treatment is a prevalent problem in clinical practice. Low levels of health literacy are related to lack of self-care, errors in the taking of medications and difficulty in understanding instructions, which is related to a higher rate of therapeutic noncompliance.


Objective: To know the degree of therapeutic noncompliance based on the degree of literacy in health of patients undergoing hemodialysis.


Material and Method: Prospective descriptive study in 35 patients in chronic hemodialysis program. Health literacy was assessed with the Health Literacy Survey European Union questionnaire. The degree of therapeutic noncompliance was determined by interdialitic weight gain and analytical indicators.


Results: Patients with an adequate level of literacy (≥34 points) presented a lower degree of non-compliance than patients with inadequate literacy in relation to interdialitic weight gain (78% vs 70%), potassium (67% vs 56%), albumin (83% vs 72%) - without statistical significance - and greater therapeutic noncompliance for phosphorus (83.33% vs51.44%) - p 0.042 -.


Conclusions: Patients with a higher level of health literacy have a lower degree of noncompliance, except for phosphorus, which is the parameter with the worst adherence rate.


 

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hemodialysis health literacy adherence to treatment therapeutic non-compliance

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Pelayo Alonso R, Martínez Álvarez P, Cagigas Villoslada MJ, Cobo Sánchez JL, Palacio Cornejo CM. Degree of non-compliance with treatment as a function of health literacy level in haemodialysis patients. Enferm Nefrol [Internet]. 2021 [cited 2025 Apr 30];24(2):[about 8 p.]. Available from: https://www.enfermerianefrologica.com/revista/article/view/4344

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