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Health literacy scale and causal model of childhood overweight

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dc.contributor.author Intarakamhang U.
dc.contributor.author Intarakamhang P.
dc.date.accessioned 2021-04-05T03:21:56Z
dc.date.available 2021-04-05T03:21:56Z
dc.date.issued 2017
dc.identifier.issn 22287795
dc.identifier.other 2-s2.0-85018783641
dc.identifier.uri https://ir.swu.ac.th/jspui/handle/123456789/12973
dc.identifier.uri https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85018783641&partnerID=40&md5=8539fb35793e9d9ee62b855dca8d0338
dc.description.abstract Background: WHO focuses on developing health literacy (HL) referring to cognitive and social skills. Our objectives were to develop a scale for evaluating the HL level of Thai childhood overweight, and develop a path model of health behavior (HB) for preventing obesity. Study design: A cross-sectional study. Methods: This research used a mixed method. Overall, 2,000 school students were aged 9 to 14 yr collected by stratified random sampling from all parts of Thailand in 2014. Data were analyzed by CFA, LISREL. Results: Reliability of HL and HB scale ranged 0.62 to 0.82 and factor loading ranged 0.33 to 0.80, the subjects had low level of HL (60.0%) and fair level of HB (58.4%), and the path model of HB, could be influenced by HL from three paths. Path 1 started from the health knowledge and understanding that directly influenced the eating behavior (effect sized - β was 0.13, P<0.05. Path 2 the health knowledge and understanding that influenced managing their health conditions, media literacy, and making appropriate health-related decision β=0.07, 0.98, and 0.05, respectively. Path 3 the accessing the information and services that influenced communicating for added skills, media literacy, and making appropriate health-related decision β=0.63, 0.93, 0.98, and 0.05. Finally, basic level of HL measured from health knowledge and understanding and accessing the information and services that influenced HB through interactive, and critical level β= 0.76, 0.97, and 0.55, respectively. Conclusions: HL Scale for Thai childhood overweight should be implemented as a screening tool developing HL by the public policy for health promotion. © 2017, Health Hamadan University of Medical Sciences. All rights reserved.
dc.subject adolescent
dc.subject Article
dc.subject attitude to health
dc.subject child
dc.subject childhood obesity
dc.subject cognition
dc.subject controlled study
dc.subject feeding behavior
dc.subject health care policy
dc.subject health literacy
dc.subject health promotion
dc.subject health service
dc.subject human
dc.subject major clinical study
dc.subject medical information
dc.subject rating scale
dc.subject reliability
dc.subject school child
dc.subject screening test
dc.subject social competence
dc.subject Thailand
dc.subject adolescent behavior
dc.subject attitude to health
dc.subject biological model
dc.subject child behavior
dc.subject cross-sectional study
dc.subject decision making
dc.subject female
dc.subject health behavior
dc.subject health care delivery
dc.subject information seeking
dc.subject interpersonal communication
dc.subject male
dc.subject Pediatric Obesity
dc.subject Adolescent
dc.subject Adolescent Behavior
dc.subject Child
dc.subject Child Behavior
dc.subject Communication
dc.subject Cross-Sectional Studies
dc.subject Decision Making
dc.subject Female
dc.subject Health Behavior
dc.subject Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
dc.subject Health Literacy
dc.subject Health Services Accessibility
dc.subject Humans
dc.subject Information Seeking Behavior
dc.subject Male
dc.subject Models, Biological
dc.subject Pediatric Obesity
dc.subject Thailand
dc.title Health literacy scale and causal model of childhood overweight
dc.type Article
dc.rights.holder Scopus
dc.identifier.bibliograpycitation Journal of Research in Health Sciences. Vol 17, No.1 (2017)


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