THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN HEALTH LITERACY AND SELF-PREVENTION BEHAVIORS FROM THE CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019 INFECTION AMONG HYPERTENSION PATIENTS
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health literacy, hypertension, coronavirus diseases 2019Abstract
This cross-sectional study aims to determine the association between health literacy and self-prevention behaviors from the coronavirus disease 2019 infection among hypertension patients. A simple random sampling was conducted to obtain 198 hypertension patients registered in the chronic disease clinic in Thatphanom crown prince hospital and living in Ummao sub district, Thatphanom district, Nakornphanom province. Data was collected by the questionnaire. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and inferential statistics, Chi-square test, and Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient. The study result showed that 61.60% of participants were female and 57.60% had over the age of 60. 26.80% had hypertension duration of 1-3 years. 67.70% of hypertension patients had a middle level of health literacy, and 62.10% had good self-prevention behaviors from the coronavirus disease 2019 infection. The level of health literacy related to self-prevention behaviors from the coronavirus disease 2019 infection with statistical significance at p-value <0.05.
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