Journal of Education and Health Promotion

Beliefs and expectations on digital learning and examinations among adult learners of a tertiary level health‑care institution

. Binukumar Bhaskarapillai; . Rajeeb K. Mishra; . Girish N. Rao; . Radhakrishnan Govindan

Volume 12, Issue 9 , October 2022, , Pages 1-5

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BACKGROUND: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‑19) constrained the regular teaching ineducational institutions and hampered the teaching–learning process across the globe. E‑learningmethod ... Read More

COVID‑19 vaccine acceptability, determinants of potential vaccination, and hesitancy in public: A call for effective health communication

. Rajesh Kumar; . Mukesh Bairwa; . Kalpana Beniwal; . Ravi Kant

Volume 11, Issue 9 , October 2021, , Pages 1-10

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BACKGROUND: Coronavirus disease rapidly spreads across the entire world in < 2 months andgravely jeopardizes the regular human routine. The medical fraternity recommends a vaccine ... Read More

Health literacy and its associated demographic factors in 18–65‑year‑old, literate adults in Bardaskan, Iran

. Hamid Joveini; . Alireza Rohban; . Parisa Askarian; . Mina Maheri; . Masoumeh Hashemian

Volume 9, Issue 12 , December 2019, , Pages 1-8

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AIMS: Improvement of general health literacy is one of the ways to achieve the desired publichealth condition. To this end, the first step is to determine the health literacy level ... Read More AIMS: Improvement of general health literacy is one of the ways to achieve the desired publichealth condition. To this end, the first step is to determine the health literacy level and its associateddemographic factors in individuals.SETTINGS AND DESIGN: This study was a cross‑sectional, descriptive‑analytic survey conductedon 700 adults (age range: 18–65 years) in Bardaskan, Iran. The required samples were selectedvia random cluster sampling method.SUBJECTS AND METHODS: The demographic questionnaire was used to collect sociodemographicinformation. The Health Literacy for Iranian Adults questionnaire was used to determine the level ofhealth literacy in participants.STATISTICAL ANALYSIS: Data analysis was conducted using SPSS software version 20 throughdescriptive and inferential statistics. Results were considered statistically significant at P ≤ 0.05.RESULTS: A total of 700 participants with a mean (standard deviation) age of 31.25 (9.32) yearsparticipated in this study. The primary sources of health information were physicians and healthstaff (50.9%) followed by the Internet (19.7%). The health literacy level of 18.1% of the participantswas inadequate, 27.7% was marginal, 39.4% was adequate, and 14.7% was excellent. The meanoverall scores of health literacy and its subscales were within the adequate range (66.1–84.0). Therelationships of health literacy level with age, education, marital status, occupational status, andhistory of disease were statistically significant (P < 0.001).CONCLUSION: It seems necessary to design and implement a variety of educational programs toimprove the general health literacy of the citizens of Bardaskan. Educational programs need to focuson groups with higher priority such as elderly people, individuals with lower educational levels, widows/widowers and divorced/separated individuals, unemployed and retired individuals, homemakers, andindividuals with a history of disease.

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Beliefs and expectations on digital learning and examinations among adult learners of a tertiary level health‑care institution

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COVID‑19 vaccine acceptability, determinants of potential vaccination, and hesitancy in public: A call for effective health communication

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Health literacy and its associated demographic factors in 18–65‑year‑old, literate adults in Bardaskan, Iran

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