Association between personal factors and health literacy and self-awareness on hypertensive prevention from users at public blood pressure station services
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https://doi.org/10.14456/dcj.2022.73Keywords:
hypertension, health literacy, self-awareness, public blood pressure monitorAbstract
The current study aimed to determine the association between personal factors and health literacy and self-awareness on hypertensive prevention. Data were collected at nine points of public blood pressure station services, which are located throughout Bangkok and Greater Bangkok areas, during March to July 2020 (5 months). Three hundred and eleven subjects have completed the questionnaire and the study found that: 1) overall health literacy and self-awareness on hypertensive prevention were significantly related (r=0.48, p=0.00). This indicated greater health literacy, greater self-awareness. The results also showed that subjects’ health literacy and self-awareness was at good level (78.73%) and great level (87.25%), respectively; 2) Both genders demonstrated no difference in health literacy (p=0.68) but difference in self-awareness significantly (p=0.03); 3) subjects with completed education under bachelor’s degree showed higher health literacy than other higher levels of education (p=0.05). However, overall self-awareness did not show any significant difference among them (p=0.06); 4) increasing age was related to greater health literacy and self-awareness. This is possibly because of more opportunity to receive and perceive key messages on health-related issues; and 5) higher educational level was related to lower health literacy, which is not consistent with previous studies i.e. the higher the education, the better the health literacy would be. The limitations of this study included the limited number of higher educational level subjects (n=10, 3.22%), whereas subjects who completed education under bachelor’s degree were presented as majority group (n=301, 96.78%). Further studies should be scaled up to include diverse educational level subjects, as well as continuing with risk communications/educating people to increase their health literacy and self-awareness on hypertensive prevention, and adjusting some items in the questionnaire for each specific group.
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