جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « health literacy » در نشریات گروه « علوم اجتماعی »

The experiences of different countries as well as the results of numerous research studies show that health-promoting behaviors are necessary to maintain the health of citizens, and people with inadequate health literacy have poorer health status. Therefore, the main purpose of this study is to investigate the role of health literacy in coping with anxiety caused by Covid-19 pandemic among Tehran citizens.

This descriptive-analytical study was conducted on 384 citizens over the age of 20 in Tehran. Sampling was conducted using Sample Power software and data were collected using two questionnaires of health literacy of Iranians from Montazeri et al. and anxiety caused by Corona from Alipour et al. (2009). Cronbach's alpha and composite reliability have been used to calculate validity, and face validity has been used to obtain the necessary validity.

Findings indicate that the mean scores of anxiety caused by Covid-19 pandemic were lower in men than those of women. Also, based on analytical results it can be said that the dimensions of health literacy (reading, assessment, comprehension, decision making, and behavior and access) are able to approximately account for 47% of anxiety caused by Covid-19.In general, anxiety caused by Covid-19 is high among citizens and due to the direct relationship between health literacy and control of Covid-19, the need for health-oriented education programs based on the areas of health-promoting behaviors and health literacy components is suggested.

The outbreak of coronavirus has brought new attention to health-related behaviors. Health literacy can be considered as one of the most important indicators affecting health-related behaviors. In the present study, an attempt was made to investigate the relationship between health literacy dimensions and health-related behaviors against the coronavirus. For this purpose, 385 people were surveyed from the 18- to 65-year-old population of Shiraz by the cluster sampling method and using a questionnaire. The findings showed that the highest health literacy score of the respondents was related to the dimension of understanding. The findings also showed that health-related behaviors against coronavirus were at a high level among about 35% of respondents. The multivariate regression analysis showed that the variables of age, sex, activity status, understanding and decision-making dimensions of health literacy had a statistically significant effect on health-related behaviors. Health-related behaviors increase with age and are more common among women than men. Health-related behaviors increased significantly with an increase in health literacy in both dimensions of understanding and decision-making. Promoting the health literacy of people in the society in its various dimensions can be effective in controlling and preventing the outbreak of infectious diseases.

The capacity to acquire, interpret and understand health information to make decisions about health-promoting behaviors can be defined as the purposeful relationship of this study.The theoretical approach of agency has been proposed with emphasis on opportunity and choice to analyze variables and explain the findings.The methodology of this research is descriptive and correlational and the statistical population of citizens over 18 years of age in urban areas of Mashhad based on a sample of 650 people in terms of volume appropriate to each region is considered a simple random.The standardized questionnaire, judges' agreement was used to achieve content validity and reliability coefficient of health literacy (0.822) and health-promoting behaviors (0.800).The results indicate that based on the spatial analysis of clustering, the average health literacy status was better than the health-promoting behaviors in general and distinctly in urban areas.status of the dependent variable in urban areas has not been very favorableBackground variables did not have a significant relationship with the main variables of the research.The extent and intensity of the relationships between the main and secondary hypotheses are significantly less than0.05 on average and above.The beta regression results show that the functional,communication, critical and basic components with the value of 69% correlation coefficient, respectively,had the greatest effect on the dependent variable. Also,the results of the prediction equation can explain49% of the variance of the dependent variable.

This study was conducted to extract the behavioral pattern represented from TV to increase the health literacy of the audience. The purpose of the research is applied with descriptive - explanation nature that has been done by mixed method and stratified random sampling in two qualitative and quantitative stages. In the qualitative stage, three comprehensive themes were extracted from the basic and organizing themes by inductive reasoning: changing the viewers' behavior and lifestyle, disease prevention, and audience empowerment. Also, in response to the second question about what changes have been made in the content of the channel programs after Corona, a slight difference was observed by comparing the programs in two time periods. By comparing physical health themes with the views of WHO experts, the shortcomings of the programs were identified: neglecting strengthening active citizenship and recognizing the rights of individuals as patients, failure to inform and orient people as a consumer of products, and failure to access to health care providers to improve health. In the quantitative stage, Friedman T-dependent test was used to test the research hypotheses. In this way, among the various dimensions of health, the physical dimension takes precedence. There was no significant difference between physical health programs in the two time periods used.

In the last two years, due to the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic and its consequences for the society, such issues as health behavior have attracted the thinkers and experts’ attention. The health behavior includes the activities performed to prevent or diagnose diseases and improve health. This concept like other phenomena is influenced by many factors. In this study, the role of the variables of attitude towards Covid-19 and health literacy in Ahvaz citizens’ health behaviors were investigated. The main aim was to study the mediating role of attitudes towards Covid-19 in the relationship between health literacy and the citizens’ health behaviors.

This research was based on a survey method. The statistical population of this study included 15-65-year-old citizens in Ahvaz City (839148 people), of whom 384 people were selected as the study sample based on Cochran's formula by using multi-stage cluster sampling method. The research instruments consisted of the Health Behavior Scale used by Lou et al. (2020), the Health Literacy questionnaire by Zareban et al.  (2016), and the Attitude questionnaire by Hanawari et al. (2020). In the current study, Cronbach's alpha coefficient was used to estimate the reliability of the scale. The research data were analyzed by using SPSS2 and AMOS 18 software.

Discussion of Results & Conclusions :

The results of this study indicated that the level of Ahvaz citizens’ health behaviors was higher than the average. The results of the correlation test between the variables of attitude towards Covid-19 and health-oriented behaviors were as follows:1) There was a significant relationship between the attitudes towards Covid-19 and health behaviors in the Covid-19 pandemic period.2) The correlation between health literacy and health behavior was significant in the Covid-19 pandemic period.  The results of path analysis showed that the variables of health literacy and attitude towards Covid-19 had a high power for predicting health behavior in such a way that these two variables could explain 51% of the variance of health behavior among Ahvaz citizens. In general, it could be concluded that health literacy and attitude towards Covid-19 played a key role in improving the citizens' health behaviors. Upon comparing the beta coefficients, it could be concluded that the total effect of Covid-19 attitude was 0.679 more than that of the variable of health literacy. Consistent with this finding, the results obtained by Rinken Orib et al. (2021) revealed that the attitude towards Covid-19 prevention had a significant effect on health behavior in the Covid-19 pandemic period. The Knowledge-Attitude-Behavior (KAB) model also demonstrated that changes in the health behaviors occurred gradually. Therefore, the content of the knowledge-attitude-behavior theory was congruent with the research findings.Given the importance of health literacy and attitude towards covid-19 in the development of health behavior during corona outbreak, it is necessary to invest in the promotion of health literacy. Based on the research findings, physicians and scientific, sports, religious, and artistic reference groups in Khuzestan Province are suggested to emphasize observing social distance in the social media and networks so as to promote a responsible attitude towards Covid-19 and health behavior. It is suggested that Khuzestan Health Center set up free online and telephone counseling centers in cooperation with academic elites, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), and psychologists to ameliorate the citizens’ health-promoting behaviors in the Covid-19 pandemic period. One of the limitations of the present research was the prevalence of the Covid-19 pandemic in Ahvaz at the time of data collection. This limitation was partially overcome by teaching how to collect the data in corona conditions and observing health protocols when collecting data.

Health literacy and social commitment are effective factors in self-care. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between health literacy and social commitment with health self-care during the coronavirus epidemic.

The method of the present study was cross-sectional study. The statistical population of the present study included all Iranians aged 15 to 64 years in February and March 2021. 447 people were selected by the available sampling method. Then, the data were analyzed using SPSS.v16 and ArcMap GIS 10.5 software and Pearson correlation coefficient and stepwise regression statistical tests.

The results of Pearson correlation coefficient test showed that there is a significant relationship between health literacy (r = 0.377, P = 0.000) and social commitment (r = 0.311, P = 0.000) with health self-care. The results of the regression analysis test also showed that health literacy and social commitment predict 18% of changes in health self-care behaviors.

Since health literacy and social commitment can be taught it is recommended for health policymakers and public education providers to promote health self-care during the coronavirus epidemic, focus on these variables.

The conscious use of social media and not falling victim to fake news requires possessing media literacy. The main question of the present research is as follows: What is the correlation between internet users’ Media Health Literacy and their Social Media Consumption. The research method was survey conducted in May 2019. The statistical population was adult citizens of Tehran who were internet users and the data was measured using a researcher-made questionnaire whose reliability has been confirmed (Cronbach’s Alpha = 0.837). By Media Health Literacy, we mean people’s understanding of their abilities to access, analyze, create and convey communicative messages in the field of health through media. According to the findings, Health Media Literacy was significantly correlated with the frequency of Social Media Consumption (in general) and Social Media Usage (the variety of social media in use and using their applications in the health domain) in the field of health. However, no statistically significant relationship was found between the average Media Health Literacy of males and females, across different age groups and across residents of various city areas. Multiple linear regression shows that variants like ‘gratifications obtained from using social media in the field of health’, ‘variety of the used health-related social media’, ‘area of residence’ and ‘years of education’ were able to define 33.5 percent of Media Health Literacy variance. It can be concluded that despite the spread of social media penetration, factors like the level of education and economic status influence the users' health media literacy. But it is expected that the users’ Media Health Literacy is enhanced using various capabilities of the social health media

The aim of this study was to predict addiction readiness based on health literacy in students of Payam Noor University of Amol in 2018-2019.

This study was descriptive-correlational. The statistical population of the present study included all students of Payam Noor University of Amol who were studying in the academic year 2018-2019. A total sample of 118 male and female students was selected using convenience sampling method. The addiction potential scale and the health literacy questionnaire were used to collect data.

The results showed that there were significant negative relationships between addiction readiness and health literacy components (access, reading skill, comprehension, evaluation, decision making, and information use). Also, the results of regression analysis showed that the total score of health literacy could significantly and negatively predict 18% of the variance of addiction readiness. Among the components of health literacy, comprehension and decision making and information use could significantly and negatively predict 21% of the variance of addiction readiness.

It can be said that health literacy is one of the variables related to addiction readiness in students which should be considered in the prevention and treatment of addiction.

Sustainable development is an organizing principle for human life. Health is considered to be one of the basic human rights and needs and the foundation for sustainable development of societies. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between health literacy and the tendency for high risk behaviors among students of North Khorasan province. This research is a descriptive correlational study. The statistical population of the study consisted of all male high school students of North Khorasan province. Using multistage cluster random sampling, 364 students were selected from 8 schools. Research tools were standard health literacy questionnaire and risk behaviors questionnaire. Data were analyzed using Pearson correlation and nonlinear regression. The reliability of the questionnaires was 0.92 and 0.87, respectively. The results showed that there is a significant relationship between health literacy and the tendency for high-risk behaviors (emotional well-being, psychological well-being and social well-being). Therefore, it is suggested that health education, health communicators, and students be provided as one of the factors promoting health information and health literacy of adolescents, courses, workshops and health education packages in relation to the prevention of mental health problems and health promotion of adolescents. Reduce social harm.

Health literacy is increasingly important as a global issue in the 21st century. The purpose of this study is to measure the level of health literacy of citizens of Tehran and its influencing factors, with emphasis on its relation to media literacy. This research was conducted through survey method, because of the extent and distribution of the statistical population. The analytical unit of the research were individuals, the area was 22 districts of Tehran and the time of the survey was year 2018. The sample size was 1200 people who were selected by cluster sampling method in 10 districts and neighborhoods of Tehran. The results showed that the four factors / variables (personal, demographic, social and informational), with the variable of media literacy, play a role in determining the level of citizens' health literacy. Increasing media access and the ability of critical assessment, which are important factors in media literacy, will affect citizens' communication ability, their capacity to maintain and process health information, and ultimately, their skills in applying new technologies.

The aim of this study was to investigate the mediation effect of Healthy Life Style (HLS) in the relationship between Health Literacy (HL) and Rural Women’ s Health Related Quality of Life (HRQL). The statistical population of the study consisted of 13835 rural women aged from 15 to 64 years old in West Islam Abad Township. According to Bartlett, Kotrlik & Higgins’ Table (2001), 250 person of the them were selected using multiple stage sampling method for doing study. Standard questionnaires (after adjusting the questions with the field of research) were employed for data collection. Content validity of the questionnaires confirmed by experts and construct validity and composite reliability of the questionnaires satisfied by estimating the measurement model. Collected data was analyzed using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) multivariate technique and the Bootstrapping method was used for testing mediating effect. The results showed that HL had a positive and significant effect on HRQL (β=0.518, ρ-value=0.001) and explained about 27 percent of its variances. Moreover, the results indicated that sum of indirect effect of HL on HRQL through the variable of HLS was significant (β=0.175, ρ-value=0.001) and HLS partially mediated positive effect of HL on HRQL.

In the modern world, health is a major challenge for all societies. As a consequence of this health education and promotion programs are interested in identifying the factors related to health improvement as well as- health threats. The aim of this study is to investigate the social determinants of physical health among the employees of Tabriz municipality. This research was a survey and target population consisted of the employees of Tabriz municipality. Through random simple sampling, 200 peoples were selected. Correlation tests were applied to analyze the data. Findings showed that there are significant relation between independent variables including social support, life style, health literacy, access to health services, environmental conditions with physical health as the dependent variable. In addition to multivariate regression analysis, 42% of changes in physical health is explained by independent variables. This study shows that social factors are effective in public health and ignoring will cause health problems. Thus, health system policymakers should benefit from social sciences theories in health-based programs preparation.