Health Literacy Level among Future Teachers at the Beginning of Undergraduate Education
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2019.11.52" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2019.11.52</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2019.11.52" target="_blank" >10.15405/epsbs.2019.11.52</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Health Literacy Level among Future Teachers at the Beginning of Undergraduate Education
Original language description
The global situation concerning the incidence of infectious and non-communicable diseases emphasises the need for increased health literacy as an important aspect influencing health and life quality. Therefore, WHO has announced strategic plans to strengthen and coordinate these activities. In the Czech Republic, the strategic documents apply to all age and professional groups. A large part relates to the area of education. For these reasons, the authors performed a research study aimed at future teachers, whose health literacy is not affected by professional training but previous education. The paper presents the results of a research study on health literacy among students in the first grades of teacher training courses. The research was carried out in 2018/2019 and involved a representative sample of 253 students of the Faculty of Education, Palacký University Olomouc. The authors used a research instrument designed by WHO and provided by the National Institute of Public Health in Prague. The reliability is r=0.91. The results bring alarming findings. A total of 86.17% of students showed an inadequate level and 13.83% a problematic level of general health literacy. None of the respondents achieved an excellent or sufficient level. Students of Health education with a focus on education achieved a higher overall level of health literacy compared with students of other teacher training programmes, but without a statistically significant difference (p=0.10). Other surprising results concerned gender-based differences in the level of health literacy; men showed a higher level of health literacy than women, again without statistical significance (p=0.63).
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
D - Article in proceedings
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Article name in the collection
The European Proceedings of Social & Behavioural Sciences EpSBS
ISBN
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ISSN
2357-1330
e-ISSN
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Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
430-439
Publisher name
Future Academy
Place of publication
London
Event location
Barcelona
Event date
Oct 9, 2019
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
UT code for WoS article
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