Health literacy and medication health literacy in adolescents: Highlights from HBSC/WHO
Susana Gaspar,
Fábio Botelho Guedes,
Ana Cerqueira
et al.
Abstract:Health literacy (HL) is an essential health determinant that could encourage the adoption of individual and community protective behaviours that contribute to public health. This study aims to analyse the associations between HL and medication HL (MHL) in 4015 adolescents from the Health Behaviour in School‐aged Children (HBSC/WHO). Data were collected from the HBSC/WHO questionnaire. Descriptive statistics, bivariate analysis, and multinomial logistic regression were performed. 62.4% of participants have a mo… Show more
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