Health Literacy Influencing Health Promoting Behaviors of Behaviors of Students in The Three Southern Border Provinces of Thailand

Abstract

 This study is a study on health literacy affecting health promotion behavior of students in the three southern border provinces. The objectives are 1) to study the level of health literacy and health promotion behavior of students in the three southern border provinces, 2) to study the factors of health literacy affecting health promotion behavior of students in the three southern border provinces. The sample group is 392 students in the three southern border provinces using the multi-stage random sampling method. The questionnaire is the research tool. The statistical data analysis is done by finding the frequency. Percentage, mean, standard deviation and multiple regression analysis.
The results of the study found that the Overall healty literacy scored at very good level ( = 3.27, S.D. = 0.39) overall health promotion behavior had an average score at a good level ( = 3.22, SD = 0.40). The health literacy factors in terms of media literacy (ß = 0.050), communication skills (ß = 0.048), access to health information and health services (ß = 0.046), and self-management skills (ß = 0.042) affected the health promotion behavior of students in the southern border provinces at a statistically significant level of 0.05, and could jointly predict the health promotion behavior of students in the southern border provinces by 49 percent.