Association between health literacy and COVID-19 prevention behaviors among pregnant and postpartum women.
J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med
; 35(25): 9971-9977, 2022 Dec.
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in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1868190
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
To investigate the association between health literacy and COVID-19 prevention behaviors among pregnant and postpartum women in Japan.METHODS:
In this cross-sectional, web-based, self-reported questionnaire survey, we investigated the association between health literacy and COVID-19 prevention behaviors among pregnant and postpartum women in Japan. A multivariable logistic regression analysis was performed to evaluate the association with adjustment for socioeconomic characteristics.RESULTS:
There were 926 respondents, comprising 368 pregnant and 558 postpartum women. Women with high health literacy scores accounted for 42% of the respondents. This group had a significantly higher proportion of actively adopting preventive behaviors than the low health literacy group (33.5 vs. 25.4%, p = .008). The multivariable logistic regression analysis showed high health literacy was significantly associated with high preventive behaviors scores compared to low health literacy (adjusted odds ratio, 1.66; 95% confidence interval, 1.22-2.27).CONCLUSION:
Higher health literacy was significantly associated with a higher proportion of COVID-19 prevention behaviors among women who are pregnant or postpartum.Keywords
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Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Health Literacy
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Experimental Studies
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
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Randomized controlled trials
Limits:
Female
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Humans
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Pregnancy
Language:
English
Journal:
J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med
Journal subject:
Obstetrics
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Perinatology
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
14767058.2022.2081498
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