Health Literacy and Attitudes Toward the Preventive Actions on Covid-19 Among Nursing Students

ABSTRACT

Introduction: Coronavirus disease 2019 has been decreed as a global pandemic due to the levels of spread and fatality. People who do not believe this disease will ignore health protocols that lead to a higher spreading rate. It is expected that nursing students should have health literacy to decrease the virus spreading by providing health promotion. However, they do not comply with implementing the precautions. The research aimed to examine the correlation between the students' health literacy and attitudes and the prevention action of the spread of COVID-19 among nursing students. Methods: A correlational study with a cross-sectional design was utilized in this research. As many as 294 nursing students took part in this research, which was chosen by accidental sampling. A questionnaire was used to collect the data. The Chi-square test was used to find out the correlation between students' health literacy and students' attitude toward preventive action against the spread of COVID-19. Results: The findings revealed no correlation between the students' health literacy and preventive action on the spread of COVID-19 (p-value 0,325) was found, but there is a significant correlation between students' attitudes toward preventive action (p-value 0,001). Conclusion: Students' attitude has a relation to preventive action meanwhile, the students' health literacy did not correlate with the preventive action against COVID-19. © 2022 UPM Press. All rights reserved.