Meeting abstract

HEALTH LITERACY OF CHILDREN IN EMERGENCY PEDIATRIC AMBULANCE

Ivana Mamić ; General County Hospital Požega, Osječka 107, Požega, Croatia
Marin Mamić orcid.org/0000-0002-0893-7805 ; General County Hospital Požega, Osječka 107, Požega, Croatia
Božica Lovrić ; General County Hospital Požega, Osječka 107, Požega, Croatia

Abstract

Introduction: Health literacy is defined as a level in which each individual has the capability to acquire information, understand and use basic health information required for the adaption of appropriate health decisions. Inadequate parent’s health literacy can result in incorrect medicine usage, missing instructions, incorrect house health care which can affect children's health and results of medical treatment.
Aim: Goal of this dissertation was to determine the health literacy level of parents visiting children’s outpatient clinic and give the most significant factors in health literacy prediction.
Methods: Cross-sectional study included 142 respondents. The research was done using a demographic survey and SHALSA-50 questionnaire. Statistical techniques used are the analysis of variance (ANOVA), Spearman’s correlation and hierarchical regression analysis.
Results: Outcome of this research shows that 83,1% of respondents are health literate. It also shows that there is no statistical difference between male and female respondents or between reasons for visiting the clinic. There is no major statistical connection between demographic variables and health literacy except the level of education (p=000). Results suggest a correlation between the increase in the level of education and increase of health literacy, higher educated respondents are more health literal. Regression analysis is separated into two steps of mutually meaningful variables and it was concluded that the level of education is a significant factor in health literacy prediction (p=000). Variables in the second step explain 27,4% and in total, they explain 31,8% health literacy variance.
Conclusion: Parents visiting children’s outpatient clinic are health literate with a high percentage (83,1%). Most significant factor for health literacy is level of education.

Keywords

Health literacy; parents; Emergency Pediatric Ambulance

Hrčak ID:

218591

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/218591

Publication date:

31.12.2018.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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