Health Literacy and Health Behavior 3E 2S of People in Baan Aur-arthorn Community Bangkhen (Klong thanon)
Keywords:
health literacy, health behavior 3E2S, people in the communityAbstract
The purposes of this research were to study the health literacy and health behavior 3E2S and to study relationship between sex, age, educational level and health literacy and health behaviors of the people in Baan Aur-arthorn community Bangkhen (Klong thanon). Data collected in March 2018. The samples were 102 people in Baan Aur-arthorn Bangkhen community (Klong thanon) Bangkok, selected by purposive sampling method. The tool used for data collection was an evaluation form of the working age group’s health literacy and health behavior based on Health Education Division, Department of Health Service Support, the Ministry of Public Health .Questionnaires on health literacy and health behavior 3E2S with the reliability of 0.87, and 0.70, respectively. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics and Chi-Square test, Spearman test and Pearson test.
The results showed that the health literacy of the samples was at a fair level which was 45.90 average, moreover, the health behavior 3E2S was at a good level which was 22.28 average. The individual factors such as gender (V = 0.62), ages (r = - 0.36), education (Spearman’s rho = 0.66) and the health literacy (r = 0.67) were relatively to the health behavior 3E2S which was significantly different at .001. These results could be used for further information of people’s health behavior and health literacy promotion at Baan Aur-arthorn community Bangkhen (Klong thanon).
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