Peng JIN, Honghui RONG, Ling ZHANG, et al. Investigation on current health literacy among military personnel on plateau and analysis of influencing factors[J]. Journal of Army Medical University, 2024, 46(11): 1306-1315.
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Peng JIN, Honghui RONG, Ling ZHANG, et al. Investigation on current health literacy among military personnel on plateau and analysis of influencing factors[J]. Journal of Army Medical University, 2024, 46(11): 1306-1315. DOI: 10.16016/j.2097-0927.202402034.
Investigation on current health literacy among military personnel on plateau and analysis of influencing factors
To investigate the status quo of health literacy among military personnel stationing on plateau and analyze its influencing factors.
Methods
2
National Health Literacy Monitoring Questionnaire (2015)
self-made questionnaire for demographic data based on literature
Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale
Simplified Coping Style Questionnaire
and Positive and Negative Affect Scale were employed to survey 2 516 officers and soldiers stationing on plateau with aid of a WeChat APP Questionnaire Star. Their current status of health literacy and its influencing factors were analyzed.
Results
2
The survey results showed that the overall health literacy level was 20.03% among the 2 516 participants. The literacy levels of basic knowledge and concepts
healthy lifestyles and behaviors
and health skills were 31.08%
26.23%
and 26.63%
respectively
and the health literacy levels of scientific health concepts
infectious disease prevention and treatment
chronic disease prevention and treatment
safety and first aid
basic medical care
and health information were 40.58%
19.36%
9.62%
82.75%
29.61%
and 45.03%
respectively. Multivariate unconditional logistic regression analysis indicated that the influencing factors of health literacy level were years of working (
OR
=1.857
95%
CI
: 1.391~2.479;
OR
=4.657
95%
CI
: 3.297~6.578)
ethnicity (
OR
=0.394
95%
CI
: 0.251~0.620)
marriage (
OR
=0.609
95%
CI
: 0.430~0.861)
only-child family (
OR
=0.759
95%
CI
: 0.585~0.985)
home location (
OR
=0.545
95%
CI
: 0.359~0.827)
smoking (
OR
=1.579
95%
CI
: 1.254~1.988)
education level (
OR
=3.638
95%
CI
: 1.500~8.822)
weekly online game time (
OR
=0.517
95%
CI
: 0.365~0.731;
OR
=0.351
95%
CI
: 0.172~0.716)
number of physical checkups per year (
OR
=3.251
95%
CI
: 1.359~7.778;
OR
= 4.545
95%
CI
: 1.841~11.221)
father's occupation (
OR
=5.185
95%
CI
: 1.800~14.933;
OR
=3.229
95%
CI
: 1.261~8.270)
mother's occupation (
OR
=0.221
95%
CI
: 0.086~0.568;
OR
=0.218
95%
CI
: 0.081~0.587;
OR
=0.046
95%
CI
: 0.018~0.118)
positive coping (
OR
=1.052
95%
CI
: 1.033~1.072)
and negative coping (
OR
=0.950
95%
CI
: 0.929~0.972).
Conclusion
2
The overall health literacy level is quite low among the plateau military personnel in this ministry
and the relevant departments should actively explore effective interventions to comprehensively improve their health literacy based on the influencing factors.
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