The Limited Health Literacy and Associated Factors Among Construction Workers in Bangkok, Thailand
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Factors, Limited health literacy, Construction workersบทคัดย่อ
This cross-sectional study aimed to study the level of limited health literacy and its associated factors among construction workers in Bangkok, Thailand. Multistage random sampling was used to select the sample of 225 Thai and 183 Myanmar construction workers in Bangkok. . Research instruments were questionnaires to gather data for socioeconomic factors, health behavior, physical health status, access to health services and health literacy. Descriptive statistics and multiple logistic regression were used to analyze the data.
The results revealed that the sample had limited health literacy in 36.27%. Limited health literacy was significantly correlated with nationality (AOR=2.32, 95%CI: 1.72-3.12, p <0.001), eucational level (AOR= 2.86, 95%CI: 1.64-4.97, p <0.001), difficulty in accessing health services (AOR= 5.49, 95%CI: 2.92-10.34, p <0.001), taking medical treatment at the clinic, (AOR= 3.79, 95%CI: 11.78-8.06, p <0.001) and patient-provider communication (AOR= 2.54, 95%CI: 1.44-4.46, p <0.001).
The findings suggest that health care providers could apply these results to develop activities/ programs to enhance health literacy for construction workers by focusing on accessing health services, taking medical treatment at the clinic, and patient-provider communication.
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