Health literacy and Health behaviors among students at Uttaradit Rajabhat University

Abstract

This cross-sectional study aimed to study health literacy, health behaviors, and therelationship between health literacy and health behaviors of students of Uttaradit Rajabhat University, 373 participants were selected randomly by multi-stage sampling. The data were collected by using self-administered questionnaires. The reliability of the questionnaires between 0.78-0.93. Data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics (frequency, percentage,
mean, standard deviation, max, min) and Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient. The results revealed that most of the samples were female around 74 percent the average age was 19.73±1.00 years. The students had a high level of health literacy but health behaviors were at moderate level. The relationship between health literacy and health behaviors were knowledge skills was a significant negative correlation with health behaviors (r  -0.147, p-value = 0.004) and self-management skills had a positive significant correlation with health behaviors (r = 0.114, p-value = 0.028) In addition, access to health information,communication skills, decision making skills, and media literacy skills were not statistically. The findings demonstrate that to promote encourage students to be awareness of health care and apply the knowledge that used in life style to have good health behavior.