HEALTH LITERACY IN SUBSTANCE USE AND ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION AMONG UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
Keywords:
health literacy in substance use, alcohol consumption, studentsAbstract
This cross-sectional study aims to determine the association of health literacy in substance use with alcohol consumption among university students. The samples were 360 students from stratified random sampling. The face-to-face structured interviews were used for data collection. Statistical analysis used descriptive statistic, chi-square test, and multinomial logistic regression. The results revealed that majority of samples were female (51.1%), age average 19.6 years old, reported a high level of positive alcohol expectancies (60.6%) and negative alcohol expectancies (50.6%), 52.3 % of them reported alcohol drinking, and about 73.6 % of them reported a low level of health literacy in substance use.
Approximately 36.7% were low-risk drinking and 15.6% were hazardous drinking. After adjusted for all covariates, the low health literacy in substance use was significantly related to hazardous drinking and low-risk drinking (aOR=2.96, 95%CI: 1.35, 6.48; aOR=2.62, 95%CI: 1.36, 5.03, respectively).
This concluded that students’ alcohol consumption was influenced by health literacy in substance use. Therefore, to improving their health literacy could be help prevented or reduced the risk of drinking.
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