Relationship between health literacy of primary school teachers and health behavior of students in Baoji city / 中国学校卫生

ABSTRACT

Objective@#To understand the current situation and the relationship between the health literacy of primary school teachers and health behavior literacy of students, and to provide some inspiration for the reform of health promotion and education in school.@*Methods@#Twelve primary schools were selected from Jintai district, Chencang district and Long county，and we used stratified cluster random sampling method to choose 334 primary school teachers and 622 students of grade 4 and 6 to fill out the questionnaire.@*Results@#Nearly 46.71% of all the teachers had adequate health literacy. Multivariate Logistic regression analysis showed that the urban and rural (OR=2.30, 95%CI=1.30-4.07) and gender (OR=2.62, 95%CI=1.36-5.05) were statistically significant for the health literacy among teachers; Adequate health behavior literacy was found in 46.78% of all the students，multivariate Logistic regression analysis also showed the urban and rural (OR=2.07, 95%CI=1.33-3.24）and mother’s education (OR=2.01-2.41, 95%CI=1.25-4.76) were statistically significant. Spearman correlation coefficient between health literacy of the teachers and students was(r=0.69, P<0.05).@*Conclusion@#The relation between health literacy of the teachers and students is positive. To improve the health literacy of primary school students, health literacy of primary school teachers should be improved first in China.