The Research Of Graduate Students' Health Literacy In Hebei Universities

Objective: Learned about the health literacy atatus of graduate students groups in universities of Hebei province by invested, studied the awareness situation of health knowledge and skills and the mastery degree of health lifestyle and behavior of this community; observed that the main factors influencing the health literacy and its three aspects' having rates under different majors and different social demographic characteristics; aimed at the existing problems to studying the ways and methods of improving the graduate students' health literacy level, and putting forward feasible suggestions to improve the health situation of them.Methods: Adopted literature analysis and expert consultation method of qualitative research, questionnaire survey and chi-square test, multiple correlation analysis, multiple factors logistic regression analysis of quantitative research methods, made use of the multi-stage random sampling, gave out 2480 questionnaires, recovered 2474 valid questionnaires, the tool was survey questionnaire of graduate students' health literacy in Hebei universities. Used SPSS 19.0 software to deal with the data.Results: 1. The college graduate groups' accuracy of heatlh literacy was 66.23%. The average accuracy of the part of health basic knowledge was 66.03%; the avertage accuracy of health lifestyle and behavior was 65.73%; and the average accuracy of health basic skills was 67.24%. Only 250 people had health literacy(10.11%), 532 people had the literacy of health basic knowledge(21.50%), 353 people had the literacy of healthy lifestyle and behavior(14.27%), and 720 people had the literacy of health basic skill(29.10%).2. The highest awareness rate of health basic knowledge was “the four cornerstones of health”(93.86%) and “the concept of health”(93.65%); the highest awareness rate of health lifestyle and behavior was “the method of processing phlegm”(96.60%); the highest awareness rate of health basic skill was “the escape method of fire”(90.70%). On the contrary, the graduate student groups known little about “unified national free health call”(19.04%); 32.74 percent students did a checkup every year; in health basic skills, the weakest was “the frequency of chest compression”(35.17%).3. In terms of the difference reach of health literacy having rate, the differences of the rate of health literacy and its three aspects between different majors, genders and father occupations were statistically significant: medicine speciality was all the highest, and compared with other majors were all statistically significant; girls were higher than boys; health workers of father' occupations were the highest. The differences of the rate of health literacy and health basic knowledge between different ethnic groups and source places of students were statistically significant: the minority nationalities were higher than the Han nationality. The differences of the rate of health literacy and its basic knowledge and health lifestyle and behavior under the influence of different degrees of father culture and mother occupations were statistically significant. The differences of the rate of health literacy and health lifestyle and behavior under the influence of different degrees of mother culture were statistically significant. Only the rates of health lifestyle and behavior and health basic skill were statistically significant under the influence of different family populations. But the rates of health literacy and its three aspects were not statistically significant under different average monthly cost of living.4. The awareness rates between health literacy and its three aspects had positive correlation(P values wrer all less than 0.001). The correlation coefficient of the rates of health literacy and health basic knowledge was the highest(r=0.523), the correlation coefficient of the rates of health literacy and health basic skills was the lowest(r=0.444).Conclusions: 1.The main factors that influencing college graduate students groups' health literacy included: majors, mother' culture degrees and source places of students. In the three parts of health literacy, the main factors of health basic knowledge were major and mother's occupations; the main factors of health lifestyle and behavior were genders, majors, mother's culture degrees and family populations; the main factors of health basic skills wrer genders, majors, father's occupations and family populations.2. The level of graduate students groups' health literacy in Hebei universities was a gloomy situation; the levels between health literacy and its three aspects were not equilibrium, especially the level of health lifestyle and behavior was too low; schools didn't value the health education of graduate studens; at the same time, the graduate students didn't focus on their own health problems.3. Countermeasures of improve the level of university graduate students' health literacy:(1) the government should supported and guided it, paid attention to the graduate students' health careets;(2) made full use of media resources, played a role of the mass media;(3) the schools attached great importance to it and strengthened the graduate students' health education;(4) strengthened physical exercise, intensified the graduate students' health consciousness.