Health Literacy About Coronavirus Disease 2019 and New Strains among Pregnant Women: A Case Study of Wat Sai Sub-district, Muang District Nakhon Sawan Province
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Health literacy is important for pregnant women because it shows that they have the knowledge to prevent risk. Have standards for taking care of yourself and your children and can face the problem of coronavirus disease 2019 well. This research is a descriptive correlational was to study the levels of health literacy and the relationship between personal factors and health literacy about coronavirus disease 2019 and new strains among nineteen pregnant women. These pregnant women stayed in Wat Sai Sub-district, Muang District, Nakhon Sawan Province. Collecting data using the health literacy questionnaire. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, the Point biserial correlation coefficient, and the Spearman rank correlation coefficient. The results revealed that 1) pregnant women had an overall average level of health literacy about coronavirus disease 2019, and the new strains were as high as 3.99 (S.D.=0.11). The average level of six health literacy such as information access (4.11±0.10), information understanding (4.17±0.12), questioning (3.91±0.14), decision-making skill (3.97±0.14), behavioral practices (3.87±0.09) and word of mouth (3.87±0.16). and 2) The correlation between personal factors and health literacy found that the channels for receiving information were significantly related to health literacy in behavioral practice (r=0.57, p<.01) and in terms of word of mouth (r=0.50, p<.05) These results use to develop health literacy to promote care behaviors and protect themselves and their families from coronavirus disease 2019 or the new strains.
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