Factors Related to Health Literacy among Police Officers Attending the 52nd Training Course for Advanced Police Administration
Keywords:
Health literacy, Health behavior, Police officer, Advanced police administrationAbstract
The purpose of this research was to investigate factors related to health literacy among the police officers attending the 52nd training course for advanced police administration. The 97 police officers were selected using purposive sampling technique. The data were collected in August 2022, using form of assessing health literacy and health behavior of working-age people in health behaviors modification villages of the Division of Health Education, Ministry of Public Health. The data were then analyzed for finding descriptive statistics, Chi-Square, and Spearman’s Rank Correlation Coefficient. The results revealed that
1. mean score on the health literacy of police officers attending the 52nd training course for advanced police administration was 38.66. More than a half of subjects were at the good level (51.55%)
2. The relationship among personal characteristics and health literacy was found that age statistically significantly negatively related with health literacy at the level of .05, while health behaviors had positive relationships with health literacy (r=0.269, p=.008), when analyzed each item of health behaviors, it was found that non-alcohol/alcohol drinking behavior was statistically significantly positively related with health literacy at the level of .05.
The study results will be used as information to enhance health literacy and health behaviors of police officers who will be the further leader of the organization.
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