KMID : 0607720150260030199
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Journal of Korean Community Nursing 2015 Volume.26 No. 3 p.199 ~ p.208
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Health Literacy and Health Behavior in Late School-age Children
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Jang Byeong-Soon
Kim Dong-Hee
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Abstract
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Purpose: This study was conducted to analyze the association between health literacy and health behavior and the effect of health literacy on health behavior in late school-age children.
Methods: Data were obtained from 333 participants who were 5th and 6th-grade students sampled from 8 elementary schools in Busan. Rapid Estimate of Adolescent Literacy in Medicine (REALM-Teen) and Newest Vital Sign (NVS) was used for assessing linguistic and functional health literacy, and the health promotion behavior score was measured for health behavior.
Results: The percentage of those with limited linguistic and functional health literacy was high (47.1%, 56.8%). Linguistic
health literacy (r=.38, p<.001) and functional health literacy (r=.11, p=.048) had a correlation with health behavior. Health behavior was significantly associated with perceived health status (¥â=1.94, p<.001), number of times of health education (¥â=0.18, p<.001), academic achievement (p<.001), home literacy environment (¥â=0.13, p= .016), perception of changes after health education (p=.011), and linguistic health literacy (¥â=0.23, p<.001).
Conclusion: The results of this study indicate that children with adequate health literacy are more likely to do health behaviors. Therefore, it is important to develop educational strategies to raise children¡¯s health literacy level and consequently to induce them to perform more health behaviors in daily life.
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KEYWORD
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Health literacy, Health behavior, Children
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