Health Literacy Factors Influencing on Hypertension Preventive Behaviors Among Risk Group with Hypertension in Tha Chai Subdistrict, Si Satchanalai District, Sukhothai Province.

Abstract

               The  objective  of  this  cross-sectional  analytical  research  was  to Health Literacy Factors Influencing on Hypertension Preventive Behaviors Among   Risk   Group   with   Hypertension   in    Tha   Chai   Subdistrict ,  Si Satchanalai  District,  Sukhothai Province.  The samples were  248  selected by  multi - stage  sampling  including   proportional   and   simple   random techniques.   The  research  instrument  was   questionnaires  consisting  of cognitive  and  Decision skill used  KR-20  with  a  confidence  value of  0.74 and  0.80 Access,  Communication  skill,  Self  management,  Media  literacy and    Hypertension  Preventive  Behaviors   using   coefficients  Cronbach's Alpha with confidence values at 0.76, 0.78, 0.80, 0. 82 and 0. 80 respectively. The statistical analysis was number, percentage, mean, standard deviation, median, maximum,  minimum,  ETA correlation,  Pearson correlation  and linear multiple regression analysis.
               The results showed that most of the samples  were  female  72.0% , average  age 47.69  ±  8.48 years , Marital status 78.2% ,  Most of them were  primary  school  53.7%  and  46.0%  were  engaged  in  agriculture.  Most of them had good level of  Health  literacy  37.5%.  Most  of  them had  middle level  hypertension  preventive  behaviors   59.7%.   Health literacy factors influencing on hypertension preventive behaviors among  risk group with hypertension   were   self   management   (p - value  <  0.001  ,   β  =  0.424) , communication   skill   (p- value  =  0.001 ,  β  =  0.196)   and  media  literacy (p-value = 0.015, β = 0.180). The results of this study can be used to develop guidelines   for  enhancing   health   literacy  to   hypertension   preventive behaviors of people in order to focus  on solving  hypertension  disease  in the community.