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KMID : 1033320140040020049
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Global Health & Nursing
2014 Volume.4 No. 2 p.49 ~ p.58
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Linguistic and Functional Health Literacy among Community-dwelling Old Adults
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Park Hyun-Ju
Hwang Sun-Kyung
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Abstract
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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the linguistic and functional health literacy and their related factors among old adults.
Methods: A total of 106 elders over 60 years old were enrolled. The KHLAT (4) and KFHLT were used for this study. The analysis was conducted using the descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, and stepwise multiple regression.
Results: The mean score of the linguistic health literacy was 47.7±16.0 and the greatest proportion was the first or second grade of middle school. In functional health literacy, the mean score was 6.0±3.0 and the percentile of correct answers was 40.0%. The related factors to the linguistics health literacy were‘ education level’ (β=.319) and ‘wearing glasses’ (β=.193), and those to the functional health literacy were ‘age’ (β=.337) and ‘perceived health status’ (β=.211).
Conclusion: The old persons have low levels of both linguistic and functional health literacy. It indicates that the different approaches should be taken for the nursing intervention to the elderly along to their age, education level, and recognized health status. In addition, different strategies for each linguistic and functional health literacy are necessary to improve the health literacy of the elderly.
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KEYWORD
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Health literacy, Aged, Elderly, Hearing
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