Health literacy level and its influencing factors among college students majoring in sports : a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To understand the 2024 health-literacy level of college students majoring in sports in China-covering the three dimensions of basic knowledge and beliefs, healthy lifestyles and behaviors, and fundamental health skills, as well as the six domains of scientific health perspectives, communicable disease prevention, chronic disease prevention, safety and first aid, basic medical care, and health-information literacy-and to identify their determinants, to guide the development of tailored, evidence-based health-literacy interventions for undergraduate sport science students in China.

Methods

Using stratified random cluster sampling, 1083 college students majoring in sports were selected from six universities in Jiangsu Province. The questionnaire was divided into two p

SUBMITTER: Yin Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12576981 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature