Relationship Between Health Literacy and COVID-19 Prevention Behaviors of COVID-19 Infected People During the Pandemic in 2021 and the First Trimester of 2022
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This survey research aimed to study the relationship between health literacy and COVID-19 prevention behaviors of COVID-19 infected people in Thailand during the pandemic in 2021 and the first trimester of 2022. The researchers used the health literacy framework of Nutbeam D. for this study. The samples were COVID-19 infected people who had been cured during the pandemic in 2021 and the first trimester of 2022. The 350 samples were recruited with snowball sampling. Data from the questionnaires were collected by online Google Form and were analyzed by percent, means, standard deviation, Pearson’s product moment correlation. The overall results showed that COVID-19 infected people have average level of health literacy and Covid-19 Prevention Behaviors of COVID-19. When categorized by aspects, it were three aspects found that accessibility to COVID-19 prevention information, self-management skill before contracting COVID-19 and decision and problems after Covid-19 infection were good level of health literacy. The other two items were knowledge and understanding of COVID-19 prevention guidelines and media literacy at average level of health literacy. The relationship between health literacy and COVID-19 prevention behaviors of COVID-19 infected people. The results showed that COVID-19 Infected people had moderate level health literacy and negative correlation of COVID-19 prevention behaviors of COVID-19 with statistical significance (p < 0.01).
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เนื้อหาและข้อมูลในบทความที่ลงตีพิมพ์ในวชิรสารการพยาบาลถือเป็นข้อคิดเห็นและความรับผิดชอบของผู้เขียนบทความโดยตรง ซึ่งกองบรรณาธิการไม่จำเป็นต้องเห็นด้วย หรือร่วมรับผิดชอบใด ๆ ทั้งสิ้น
บทความ ข้อมูล เนื้อหา รูปภาพ ฯลฯ ที่ได้รับการตีพิมพ์ในวชิรสารการพยาบาล ถือเป็นลิขสิทธิ์ของวชิรสารการพยาบาล หากบุคคลใดหรือหน่วยงานใดต้องการนำทั้งหมดหรือส่วนหนึ่งส่วนใดไปเผยแพร่ต่อหรือเพื่อกระทำการใด ๆ จะต้องได้รับอนุญาตเป็นลายลักอักษรจากวชิรสารการพยาบาลก่อนเท่านั้น
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