Actions Speak Louder Than Words: Health Behaviours and the Literacy of Future Healthcare Professionals.

ABSTRACT: Our everyday behaviours in life can positively and negatively impact our health, thus cumulatively shaping our lifestyles as more or less healthy. These behaviours are often determined by our knowledge, literacy, motivations and socioeconomic backgrounds. The authors aimed to assess health behaviours and explore variables that may affect persons studying to become future healthcare professionals in Poland. This study was conducted with a group of 275 undergraduate students attending the Poznan University of Medical Sciences representing six different majors of study. We used self-reported, cross-sectional survey conducted through the use of a questionnaire that consisted of one standardised scale (Juczyński's Health Behaviour Inventory) as well as a self-developed health literacy measure.

SUBMITTER: Chawlowska E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9498724 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature