Who Is Able to Resist What Is Forbidden?-The Relationship between Health Literacy and Risk Behaviours in Secondary School Students in the Broader Social and Educational Context.

ABSTRACT: In the last Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (HBSC) survey conducted in Poland in 2018, a group of 17-year-old adolescents (n = 1663; mean age 17.63 ± 0.36 years) was included outside the international protocol. This allowed an assessment to be made of their level of health literacy (HL) using the 10-point HBSC research tool. The aim of the study was to investigate the relationship between HL and risk behaviours (RB). A standardised index of RB in the last 30 days was considered as an outcome measure. This index was significantly higher in the group with low HL (0.318 ± 1.269) in comparison with the group with high HL (-0.083 ± 0.962). In a multivariate linear regression model, the strongest predictors of RB were gender, academic performance and level of regional deprivation

SUBMITTER: Kleszczewska D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9368140 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature