Relationship between Health Literacy and Preventive behavior for Cardiovascular Disease among Health Volunteers

Abstract

The objective of this study was to explore relationship between health literacy and behavioral prevention and control of cardiovascular diseases among the public health volunteers. The questionnaire surveys were conducted among 350 public health volunteers from 16 District Health Promotion Hospitals in Mueng District, Chonburi Province between January 2018 and March 2018.Data were analyzed using frequency , percentage and Pearson’s Product  Moment  Correlation Coefficient            
The results were as follows : health literacy on cognitive performance was in high level
(44.85 percent), health literacy on information access and health services was in low level (40 percent),
on communication skill was in  moderate level (45.71 percent), on decision-making was in high level
(46.85 percent), on self-management was in  moderate level (42.85 percent), and  on media literacy was in moderate level (40 percent). For the prevention and control of cardiovascular disease,the majority of the volunteers had behavioral prevention and control of cardiovascular diseases in moderate level (36.28 percent). For the relationship between health literacy and behavioral prevention and control of cardiovascular disease, there was a  positive  relationship  with statistical significance of 0.05 and the correlation coefficient of 0.519