Study On The Status Of Health Literacy And Influencing Factors Of Xinjiang Residents

Objective: To investigate the health literacy of urban and rural residents in Xinjiang,grasping the overall level of health literacy of all urban and rural residents in Xinjiang and various aspects of literacy,statistical analysis of the main factors affecting the health literacy of residents,to find the weak links in the existing work,To determine the focus of follow-up health education and interventions for the government and health administrative departments to develop relevant policies to provide reference data.Methods: Investigation adopted stratified multi-stage proportional and KISH table method,a sample of investigation sites including Urumqi,Karamay City,Tacheng area,Aksu area,Bozhou,Kashi area and Yili state included 1920 urban and rural residents age between 15 to 69 years old;Using<the national monitoring residengts’ health literacy questionnaire 2015>by housed queestiongnarire survey method.Epidate3.1 pairs of data collected for double entry;spss19.0 analysis of data,the use of composition ratio,rate and other indicators for statistical description,the use of chi-square test of different characteristics of the survey group between different groups of health literacy and three aspects of literacy The level of statistical analysis,the use of binary logistic regression analysis to find out the impact of residents.Health care and three aspects of the key factors of the level of literacy,P<0.05 meaningful.Results: The overall level of health literacy of residents in Xin Jiang was 7.5%;the rate of health knowledge,healthy behavior Literacy,basic skills was9.1,14.3,36.6%.We divided the health literacy into 6 classes,the proportion of residengt in XinJiang who had these 6 classes were as follows: basic medical health literacy 9.7%,chronic disease prevention literacy 15.9%,infectious disease prevention literacy 45.1%,health information literacy 48.3%,The scientific views of health literacy 56.2%,Safety and emergency literacy 71.3%;The correct answer rate of Six types health problems literacy,such as knowledge of the residents of chronic,basic healthy knowledge was low level.Chi-square test showed that different urban and rural areas,age,nationality,career,degree of education,family average income and whether chronic disease;The results of multi-reason logistic regression analysis indicated that,different urban and rural areas,income,educational level and ethnicity are the main factors affecting the health literacy level of residents;family average annual income is high,the higher the level of education of urban residents with health literacy.Conclusion: Residents’ health literacy of Xinjiang was staying at a low stage,The distribution of residents’ basic knowledge and concept,and health behavior and basic skills was different;the level of health knowledge literacy was significantly lower than other two literacy.The residents should have better knowledge of safety and first aid literacy.The awareness rate of residents’ health care and chronic diseases related issues is low.Therefore,it is very important to strengthen the health education for residents in Xinjiang,especially to strengthen the education on basic medical treatment and prevention and treatment of chronic diseases,and to further improve the health literacy of residents.