Factors affected to health literacy in prevention and control of COVID-19 among people living in border areas of Thailand-Laos-Cambodia: Ubon Ratchathani case study
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The national strategies of covid-19 prevention and control of Thai population have been emphasized on health literacy for daily life, which requires some factors to provide correct knowledge and understanding of Covid-19 disease prevention and control. The study was a cross-sectional, analytical study. It aimed to study factors effected to health literacy in prevention and control of covid-19 of people in border areas Thailand-Laos-Cambodia. The target population was above 15 years of age, living in border areas Thailand-Laos-Cambodia. There were totally 783 persons in Ubon Ratchathani province randomly selected into the study via multi-stage sampling. The questionnaire tool was analyzed via Cronbach's alpha coefficient was 0.76. All results were analyzed via both descriptive and analytical statistics including, multiple linear regression, adjusted R – squared (R2adj) with 95% confidential interval. The findings revealed the participants had moderate level of health literacy in prevention and control of covid-19 (62.84%). The factors associated with health literacy of covid-19 prevention included levels of education, lost incomes, and occupations (R2 = 0.109, R2adj = 0.093, p-value < 0.001). All factors could also be used to predict the health literacy around 10.9 percent. Conclusively, we should address how to apply those three important factors including levels of education, lost incomes, and occupations to improve the health literacy in prevention and control of emerging diseases.
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