The Relationship between Health Literacy and Malaria Prevention Behaviors of People in Malaria Risk Areas in Nakhon Ratchasima Province
Keywords:
health literacy, malaria prevention behaviorAbstract
This cross-sectional analytical study aims to study health literacy in malaria prevention, malaria prevention behavior and the relationship between health literacy in malaria prevention
and malaria prevention behavior of people in risk areas. The samples used in the research were people in risk areas of Nakhon Ratchasima province. A total of 385 people came from cluster
sampling and simple random sampling, and data collection was by questionnaire. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and multiple logistic regression analysis with enter method.
The results showed that most of the samples had insufficient levels of health literacy in malaria prevention at 89.1% and inappropriate levels of malaria prevention behavior at 70.9%.
After controlling the confounding factors, the results also show that health literacy in malaria prevention was significantly associated with malaria prevention behavior (P-value <0.001). The sample with sufficient health literacy in malaria prevention has up to 4.095 times more proper malaria prevention behavior than a sample with insufficient levels of health literacy in malaria
prevention (95% CI = 2.067-8.115).
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