Investigation on influencing factors of health literacy and analysis on health education demand based on mobile terminal among college students
10.3969/j.issn.1671-8348.2018.15.022
- VernacularTitle:大学生健康素养的影响因素及基于移动终端的健康教育需求分析
- Author:
Hua ZHANG
1
;
Zhiling SUN
;
Haixia GAO
;
Yinfeng DONG
;
Ke ZHAO
;
Sainan WANG
;
Kangkai CHEN
;
Yu ZHUANG
Author Information
1. 南京中医药大学护理学院
- Keywords:
college students;
health literacy;
mobile terminal;
health education demand
- From:
Chongqing Medicine
2018;47(15):2055-2060
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective To understand the health literacy status,influencing factors and demand carrying out the health education based on the mobile terminal among college students to provide a new idea for formulating and implementing the health literacy promotion plan for university students.Methods The multi-stage stratified cluster random sampling method was adopted to extract 1 949 students from partial universities in Nanjing City and conduct the investigation by adopting the Rapid Estimate System of Health Literacy and Health Education Demand Based on the Mobile Terminal Questionnaire of College Students.The influence factors were analyzed by using the univariate analysis and ordinal multi-classification Logistic regression analy sis.Results The university students with high,marginal and low health literacy level accounted for 31.3％,48.9％ and 19.8％ respectively.The proportions of the students with high health literacy in the four dimensions,including health knowledge,health behaviors,health skill and health status,were 57.9％,18.3％,61.0％ and 44.5％ respectively.The ordinal multi-classification Logistic regression analysis showed that the major influence factors affecting the health literacy of university students were gender,education background of mothers,majors,grades,electively taking the health education course.81.2 ％ of university students wanted to or urgently wanted to understand the health literacy knowledge.The main route getting the health literacy knowledge by the university students was network(83.8％).91.8％ of students were willing to learn the health literacy knowledge through mobile terminal.87.1％ of students believed that the WeChat was suitable to learn the health knowledge,81.3％ of students hoped to use the WeChat platform for learning the health knowledge,73.8％ of students hoped the Wechat to push the health knowledge with the modes of words combined with images and video.It was recommended that the health knowledge pushing for 1-3 times per week was suitable.Conclusion The health literacy of university students is at the marginal level.The health behaviors literacy is most lacking and the demand for the health education based on the mobile terminal is stronger.The health literacy intervention of university students should sufficiently apply the new media platform superiority and the emphasis should be placed on the populations of males,low education background mothers,non-medicine major,low grade and without electively taking the health education course.
