Students’ attitudes towards impact of the health department website on their health literacy in Semnan University of Medical Sciences

  • سال انتشار: 1397
  • محل انتشار: پنجمین همایش پژوهشی سالیانه دانشگاه علوم پزشکی استان سمنان
  • کد COI اختصاصی: CSUMSMED05_372
  • زبان مقاله: انگلیسی
  • تعداد مشاهده: 454
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نویسندگان

Ali Valinejadi

Ph.D. of Health Information Management, Assistant Professor, Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Department of Health Information Technology, School of Allied Medical Sciences, Semnan University of Medical Sciences, Semnan, Iran

Behnoosh Pooyesh

Student Research Committee, School of Allied Medical Sciences, Semnan University of Medical Sciences, Semnan, Iran

Fatemeh Jafari

Student Research Committee, School of Allied Medical Sciences, Semnan University of Medical Sciences, Semnan, Iran

Mehdi Kahouei

Ph.D. of Health Information Management, Associate Professor, Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Department of Health Information Technology, School of Allied Medical Sciences, Semnan University of Medical Sciences, Semnan, Iran

چکیده

Introduction: Health literacy has been of interest to policymakers because of its impact on health decision-making as one of the important issues for promoting community health and improving the quality of health care delivery. Therefore, it seems necessary to examine the status of the website of the health sector of the University of Medical Sciences in promoting health literacy from the viewpoint of the students. Methods: This cross-sectional study was performed on 529 medical and allied students in schools affiliated to Semnan University of Medical Sciences, Semnan, Iran between 2016 and 2017. In this study, a valid and reliable adult health literacy questionnaire designed by Montazeri et al. was used. The questionnaire was distributed among students in medical and allied health schools and they were asked to complete the questionnaire. Independent-samples t-test, one-way ANOVA, and Pearson product-moment correlation were used to analyze data by SPSS 19. Results: Mean scores of the participants’ attitudes towards reading of health information was 3.14 and towards decision and usage of health information was 2.53. Relationship between the study subjects’ demographic characteristics and their attitudes was significant (p< 0.05). Conclusion: This study showed that interventional strategies are necessary to lead students to make effective use of the university’s health department website. Hence, the results of this study showed that the website of the health department needs to be redesigned, and this design would allow a better link between the University of Medical Sciences and its audience to promote health literacy.

کلیدواژه ها

Health department, Website, Health literacy, Students, Iran

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