HEALTH LITERACY AND SELF-CARE BEHAVIORS AMONG RURAL ELDERLY
Keywords:
Health literacy, Self-care behaviors, ElderlyAbstract
This cross sectional study aims to determine the association between elderly health literacy and self-care behaviors. All 257 elderly subjects with simple random sampling method in rural community namely Kudrang subdistrict, Kudrang district, Mahasarakham Province. The data were collected by standardized questionnaire. The per-centage, median, and binary logistic regression were used for analysis. The results revealed that the major elderly groups were female (70%), median age of 67 years, reside with couple/children/relative (88.3%), and most of them were social bound elders (90.3%). Most of elderly had high level of self-care behaviors (53.3%), high level of total health literacy (51.4%), and the low level of total health literacy was significantly associated with the low level of self-care behaviors (aOR=2.66, 95%CI: 1.47, 4.81). This study pointed that elderly self-care behaviors level derived effect mutually of elderly health literacy level. Hence, the adequate health literacy promoted could enhance elderly be able to practicing appropriated self-care behaviors.
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