Journal of Health Literacy
Volume:3 Issue: 2, 2018

The world today, in addition to dealing with natural disasters such as flood and earthquake, is witnessing humanitarian disasters like war. Although perceived risk is a subjective risk assessment and it varies from person to person and from region to region, but the formation of a proper risk communication at the time of these events is a task for health experts. Risk communication is a two-way, dynamic interaction in which both sides exchange information about the nature, importance and control of the risk. This article was written to understand risk, public health and risk communication.

Nutritional habits are formed during childhood, especially adolescents. Mothers play the most influential role in this regard. Maternal health literacy affects the weight and height of children. The aim of this study was to determine Mothers’ health literacy about nutritional habits and anthropometric indices in primary school students in Sari in 2017.

This correlation study was performed on 211 elementary school students in Sari. Mothers' health literacy was assessed by using researcher-made questionnaire. Students' height and weight were recorded by instructed subjects and anthropometric indices were calculated by WHO AnthroPlus software 4 and according to the World Health Organization (WHO 2007). Data analysis was performed with SPSS 20 software and the descriptive and inferential statistical methods was used (Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis test and Spearman correlation coefficient).

Findings showed that 71.4% of mothers had a good level of health literacy and 26.2% of them had good health literacy. The prevalence of overweight and obesity among students was in sequence 22.3% and 16.1%. In addition, 4.6% of students had mild to severe underweight and 2.3% of students had mild to severe stunting. There was a positive correlation between maternal health literacy for age, height for age and body mass index for age of students, which was not statistically significant.

With Consideration of the moderate level of maternal health literacy and the relatively high prevalence of overweight and obesity in students, it is essential the comprehensive intervention and empowerment of students, families and the participation of decision-makers in choosing healthy eating habits.

Although cardiovascular diseases are at the head of health problems in Iran, few studies examined the health literacy of patients with ischemic heart diseases (IHD). Therefore, this study was conducted to evaluate the level of health literacy and its related factors in patients with IHD.

This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted in 2017 on 317 patients with IHD who were hospitalized in Shahid Beheshti Hospital in Kashan in 2017. The data collection tool was a questionnaire including demographic characteristics and Iranian health literacy questionnaire (HELIA). Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, independent t-test, analysis of variance, Pearson correlation coefficient and regression. The level of significance in all testes was selected as

The mean(SD) age of participants was 57.99 (12.07) years. Overall, 5.3% of patients had good health literacy, 81.8% had moderate health literacy and 13% had poor health literacy. There was a correlation between the mean percentage of acquired literacy score and variables such as location, age, history of receiving training about illness, duration of illness, having other underlying illness, education level, family size, and source of health information (P <0.05). Regression analysis showed that among all factors, only age, education level, the source of information about health and disease, the duration of ischemic heart disease and co-morbidity could predict health literacy in patients with ischemic heart disease.

The health literacy of patients with ischemic heart disease was not optimal. Nurses and other health care providers should try to allocate time in their care programs to assess the health literacy of patients with ischemic heart disease and create plans for promoting it.

The main purpose of this study is to study the education of media literacy on the attitude of athletes about the use of supplements.

The statistical population of this study was all the athletes using fitness clubs in Kermanshah (N = 20000). The sample was 376 people using the Cochran formula. To collect data, a researcher-made questionnaire on Attitude about the use of supplementary exercise was used and the media literacy questionnaire was used by Solhi et al. (1394) and their reliability was obtained in a preliminary study (0.78, 0.76), respectively. Data were analyzed using SPSS software.

The results of this study showed that media literacy and its components included knowledge of media management; critical thinking and media analysis have a positive and significant relationship with the attitude toward sport supplementation.

The findings of this study indicate the importance of the correct information role for correct use of supplements and preventing the arbitrary use of supplements. Therefore, the high level of media literacy in a society can promote the health, vitality and vitality of the community.

Maternal health literacy is a key and important factor in ensuring prenatal cares, prenatal health, and the successful outcomes of this period. Due to the high significance of health literacy during pregnancy and its direct effect on fetus, the present research was conducted to determine the relationship between maternal health literacy with prenatal cares in pregnant women.

This descriptive – analytical and cross- sectional study was performed in 2017 on 130 pregnant women referred to centers and comprehensive health service bases of Bushehr city to perform prenatal care. The sample were selected by simple randomized method. Data was collected by using Maternal Health Literacy and Pregnancy Outcome Questionnaire (MHLAPQ). Data was analyzed by SPSS software (version 15) and inferential statistics, independent t test, ANOVA, and Pearson correlation.

The mean score of maternal health literacy was 88.5±13.2. There was significant relationship between maternal health literacy and educational level, job, number of pregnancy (P<0.05). Pearson correlation coefficient showed significantly positive relation between health literacy with prenatal cares and pregnancy outcomes (P<0.05).

Because of the importance of health literacy in mother and newborn health and for promoting health literacy and consequently prenatal care and pregnancy outcomes it is necessary for national health authorities to develop more plans to improve health literacy and empowerment of this group.

Health literacy is one of the biggest and most important determinants of health in the world. The purpose of this study was to investigate studies based on models / theories of health education and health promotion in health literacy research in a systematic way.

In order to obtain Persian and English related documentation of internal databases (SID, Iranmedex, Magiran, IranDoc), foreign (ProQuest, Scopus, Web of Science, Medlib, PubMed) as well as Google Scholar search engine without restrictions based on PRISMA guideline for systematic reviews study. To avoid bias in the study, the search, selection of studies, qualitative evaluation and data extraction were done independently by two researchers. Any disagreement between the two researchers was examined by the third person and in the end, 14 articles with inclusion criteria were studied.

In this study, three studies were done before and after the semi-experience. The results showed that after the intervention, the mean of health literacy score based on the patterns / theory in the experimental group significantly increased compared to the control group. Another 11 cross-sectional studies examined the predictive power of health literacy in patterns / theories. The results showed that health literacy increases the predictive power of pattern/ theory constructs in predicting the behavior. The studies were conducted in a variety of target groups such as patients, students, nurses, health volunteers and community members, and considered a different range of people. One of the most popular patterns/ theories in the studies was the self-efficacy theory.

The results showed that the use of different patterns/ theories along with health literacy can have a positive effect on health behaviors and depending on the purpose of the study, different patterns/ theories should be used. Based on the results obtained from all the patterns/ theories, one of the constructs and theories that were presented in most studies as the most important and strongest construct was the self-efficacy construct/theory that played an important role in the adoption of human health behavior. Therefore, it is necessary to use this construct in future intervention studies and to use an appropriate and effective strategy to increase the self-efficacy in individuals.

Medical, dietary adherence and exercise plays a key role in the control of diabetes, and health literacy is a decisive factor in patient's adherence. The aim of this study was to determine the health literacy and its relation with medical, dietary Adherence and exercise in Patients with Type II Diabetes mellitus.

This analytical- descriptive study was conducted on 241 patients with type II diabetes referred to Imam Khomeini Hospital of Ardabil city in 2017 who were selected by simple sampling method. Tools for data collection was demographic Test of functional health literacy of adults (TOFHLA), Morisky 8-Item Medication Adherence (MMAS-8) and dietary Adherence and exercise, questionnaires. For data analysis, descriptive statistics (mean, standard deviation and frequency distribution) and analytical statistics (one-way variance, independent t test and Pearson correlation) by SPSS were used.

The mean(SD) age of patients was 55.17 (10.15). The overall score of health literacy, medical adherence and adherence to diet and exercise were 52.51 (17.60), 2.96 (1.89) and 57.15 (14.35), respectively. 128 patients (53.1%) had inadequate health literacy. Health literacy was significantly correlated with medical, dietary Adherence and exercise(p< 0.05).

Health literacy is effective on medical, dietary Adherence and exercise of patients. Therefore, it seems to be essential to pay attention to education and promotion of health literacy by Mass media and healthcare custodians.