Health Literacy and Health Behavior of Workers in the Construction Industry

Autor: An-Yi Chiang, 姜安憶
Rok vydání: 2017
Druh dokumentu: 學位論文 ; thesis
Popis: 105
Objective: Health literacy (HL) had been defined as the social skill to measure the motivation and ability of individuals to gain, understand and use information in ways which promote and maintain good health. Workers of the construction industry are considered to be the higher risk group with the unhealthy behaviors and low grade of HL, in both work form and life style among all kinds of laborers. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between the grades of HL and the health behavior in workers of construction industry. Method: Cross-sectional study design was conducted via convenience sampling method among target group of over 20-year-old construction workers living in southern Taiwan from February to May in 2017. European Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire was adopted by this research, including demographic information, health behavior and HLS-EU-Q47. Qualitative data analysis, HL-index score, independent sample t-test, one-way ANOVA and Spearman correlation analysis were applied to assess the health literacy scale. Result: In this study, a total of 350 questionnaires were issued and 312 were collected. The response rate was 89.1%. The average age of respondents was 45.5±13.9 years-old. The general average body mass index was 24.5±3.7. The average rate of participants receiving education above high school was 64.1% (n=200). The medical expenses is less than 2,200 NT$ and was 78.5% (n=245). The share of the smokers was 41.3% (n=129), betel nut chewers was 15.1% (n=47), alcohol consumer was 49.4% (n=154) and 50%(n=156) lack of exercise habits. Their general perception of health was 93.9% (n=293), which is above average, but 31.4% (n=98) of those did not frequently gather health information. The means of HL-score of the participants was 31.8±5.6. Demographic characteristics, health behavior and health literacy were analyzed by one-way ANOVA and independent samples t-test. In terms of demographic information, including job titles, age, education, monthly income and health awareness differed significantly (p
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