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

Objective Through the survey of the health literacy of college students in Taiyuan ,to findout the status of health literacy and carry out targeted interventions in health literacy of collegestudents for providing reference.Methods Using stratified cluster sampling method, totally 1275 students of Shanxi MedicalUniversity, Shanxi University, Taiyuan University of Science and Technology were enrolled.Using self-administered questionnaire collected data. Survey include the survey basicstatistical population variables(like sex,age,parental education level,students' sources,etc.),thethree parts of the health literacy(the basic knowledge of health literacy,the healthy lifestylesand behavior,the basic skills of health literacy).Data inputing use EpiData3.0, all the data wereanalyzed by SPSS13.0,health literacy of college students and their population characteristicswere analyzed by descriptive analysis,the comparison of health literacy among differentdemographic characteristics use t test or analysis of variance,logistic regressions are used todetermine the major factors of health literacy.Results The basic knowledge and concept of health literacy score on hundred mark systemwas 67.60±14.44 , healthy lifestyle and behavior score was 53.08±15.01, health skills scorewas 79.05±18.52. The health literacy scores are different (P＜0.05) in gender, students'sources, the education of their parents; nation,the cost of living and whether the parentsdivorce on health literacy scores of students were no significant difference (P＞0.05); Theaverage score of health literacy in medical university was 65.18±12.13,the other school were58.86±12.73 and 59.30±11.26.Student health behavior and lifestyle have low scores.Thereare much more subject accuracy less than 50%. Conclusion The college student in Taiyuan could master more than one-third of the healthliteracy; the score of the healthy lifestyles and behavior was the lowest;the three parts of thehealth literacy(the basic knowledge of health literacy,the healthy lifestyles and behavior,thebasic skills of health literacy) was a positive correlation relationship;the health literacy scoresof medical school is higher than other categories of schools;the most important factor of healthliteracy was gender, students' sources and family income;the method of improve healthliteracy level of college students include strengthen school health education and healthpromotion, focusing on family health education,change the bad habits and practice healthybehavior.