Research On The Health Literacy And Its Influencing Factors Of College Students

Objective: Understand the status of health literacy among college students, and analyzethe main factors affecting college students’ health literacy, explore ways of parentsteaching, and realize the impact of social support on college students’ health literacy,find the problems and weak links, work for students’ health literacy interventiontargeted to provide the reference basis.Methods: Take the stratified cluster sampling method,1983college students in a threecolleges and universities students (1783valid questionnaires), anonymous survey. Withinvestigation tools include questionnaire of general demographic data, health literacy,the Chinese version of Jane’s parents parenting questionnaire, understanding socialsupport scale.Using SPSS17.0software t test, single factor analysis, Pearson correlationanalysis and multiple regression analysis data.Results:1.College students’ health literacy average always divided into61.11±11.95;Health knowledge and concept scored an average of62.75±15.49; A healthy lifestyleand behavior scored an average of51.98±14.33; Health skills scored an average of80.80±15.93. Health literacy among medical colleges scored higher than science andliberal arts colleges score, the difference was statistically significant (P <0.05).2. Different gender of college students’ health literacy and each dimension scoredifferences statistically significant (P <0.05); Male students scored health literacyscores, health knowledge and concept, healthy lifestyle and behavior scored lower thangirls; Health skill score higher than girls and boys.3. Different professional health literacy and each dimension score differences werestatistically significant (P <0.05). Clinical score the highest professional healthknowledge, health knowledge and concepts, skills, health behavior score were higherthan other professional.4. Health literacy and different grade of each dimension score differences werestatistically significant (P <0.05). In grade one in the healthy knowledge score and totalscore lower than that of grade two and grade three points, with the increase of grade,students’ health knowledge, health behavior and skills level has a tendency to rise.5. Different cost of living of college students’ healthy knowledge and concept, healthylifestyle and behavior differences statistically significant (P <0.05), health skills was no statistical significance between.6. Singleton female health skill score higher than non-only child, sources with the city’scollege students health skill scores higher than that of urban and rural students,statistically significant differences (P <0.05).7. Different parents culture level of college students’ health literacy score difference wasstatistically significant (P <0.05). With the improvement of parents’ cultural degree,college students’ health literacy has a tendency to rise.8. Logistic regression analysis showed that the main factors that influence the healthliteracy for gender, grade, professional. Parents refused to factor in the way of healthliteracy and parents were significantly negative correlation relationship, emotionalwarmth factor was significantly positively related to relationship with parents; Andunderstanding level of social support were positively correlated.Conclusion:1. University students overall level of health literacy is low, the threedimensions of health literacy and health literacy level uneven. College students’ generalhealth skills literacy levels, but a healthy lifestyle and behavior of the college studentsscored lowest.2. Health literacy of three dimensions, namely, health knowledge and concept, healthylifestyle and behavior, health skills positively correlated relationship between the three.3. Medical college students at the university of health literacy is higher than other typesof universities, the main factors affecting college students health literacy is gender,grade, professional.4. Most of the way parents factor was significantly correlated with health literacy and itsall dimensions. The father, mother refused to health literacy and its dimension hassignificant negative correlation relationship; Father, mother’s emotional warmth andhealth literacy and its dimensions were significantly positive correlation. Apprehend thelevel of social support and health literacy was positively related to relationship.5. Improve the health literacy level of college students should strengthen school healtheducation, and actively use different mass media to conduct health education method,and periodic testing health literacy level of college students. Extensive use of variousresources for college students to create to improve health literacy levels of theatmosphere.