The study on Elderly Health Literacy of Universal Prevention Behavior in Khon Kaen Province

Abstract

The research aimed to study the health literacy of universal prevention behaviors of the elderly in Khon Kaen province, collecting data using questionnaires from 265 samples by purposive sampling technique. The statistics used were frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, Adjusted OR by Multinomial logistic regression analysis.

The study found that the majority of the sample was female at 74.3 percent had an average age was79.84 years, had the highest level of education at the elementary level, and 61.5 percent had marital status and 86.0 percent were mainly engaged in farming, followed by non-working people at 31.7 percent. The majority of the economy is in need, accounting for 67.5 percent of which have no role in society, accounting for 90.2 percent of the most informed channels. 93.2 per cent of the majority have received two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.

        The overall elderly health literacy in universal prevention behavior including accessibility, cognitive, communication skill, decision skill, self-management and media-literacy mostly was low level at 61.8 percentage only self management had higher score over other part.According to the data analysis, females were 3.67 times more well in universal infection prevention behaviors than males (ORadj=3.67,95%CI=.47-28.61). Samples younger than 65 years of age were more likely to be more well about universal infection prevention behaviors. Those over 65 years of age were 2.42 times more likely to be well in universal infection prevention behaviors more than those with a needy income (ORadj=.79 , 95% CI=.17-3.68). Those with family members more than 3 people were 1.93 times more likely to have health literacy about universal infection prevention behaviors than those who lived alone (ORadj=1.93, 95% CI=.23-16.18). Those with fluent readability were 3.24 times more likely to had health literacy about universal infection prevention behaviors more than those who could not read or were not fluent. Samples that access information on people channels 2.25 times more likely to had health literacy about universal infection prevention behaviors more than those without channel (ORadj=2.25 , 95% CI=.47-10.84) The sample with family caregivers was 2.47 times more likely to had health literacy about universal infection prevention behaviors than those without a caregiver (ORadj=2.47 , 95% CI=.65-9.38). The sample with full vaccinated are more likely to had health literacy about universal infection prevention behaviors than 2 needles vaccinated 0.75 times (ORadj=.75, 95% CI=.08-5.24) The recommendation from this research is to build health awareness about universal infection prevention behaviors among the elderly. It is important to prevent COVID-19 infection, appropriate methods, information and communication channels should be established for personal factors, including sociocultural contexts.to prevent further misconduct.