Nursing students and health literacy: The effect of region and programme level

Balmer, G. Deborah; King, Anna; Moloney, Willoughby; Moselen, Emma; Dixon, Robyn

doi:10.1016/j.nepr.2019.102688

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“…Our ndings are in con rm results reported in the literature with fourth year nursing students having signi cantly higher mean health literacy scores compared to rst year nursing students (p < 0.05) (10). Furthermore, our results were inconsistent with the ndings of [31,34] whose results showed that the difference in health literacy mean scores and student years were statistically signi cant. Our results should could be explained by the lack of speci c health literacy content in the nursing curriculum leaving development of health literacy knowledge to chance, hence not uniform across levels of study.…”

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“…The results suggested that gender, age and year in education in uenced the health literacy levels of the nursing students [26]. In another study, among 845 undergraduate nursing students showed that the students' health literacy levels changed as they progressed through their nursing education programme [27].…”

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“…However, health literacy is not explicitly part of the nursing curriculum in Namibia and many other countries; therefore, evidence is needed to determine if current nursing education programmes are adequately equipping students with the required health literacy skills. It is important to monitor and assesse the health literacy levels of nursing students [27]. The study speci cally assessed the students' health literacy levels, their practices and compared how these variables differ across the four years of undergraduate nursing education.…”

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Nursing Students’ Health Literacy Level and Health Practices: a Cross Sectional Study at a University in Namibia

Munangatire¹,

Tomas²,

Mareka³

2021

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Background: Inadequate health literacy and poor health practices among nurses could be a hindrance to empowering the population with good health practices. For the nurses to empower the population, they need to be equipped with good health literacy and good health practices. The starting point of solving this problem is through provision of deliberate health literacy and health practice education in the nursing curriculum. This study explored health literacy level and health practices of nursing students in Namibia. Specifically the study examined the health literacy level, health practices and the relationship between the two among nursing students across four levels of study. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out among 205 nursing students. A simple random stratified sampling method was used and data were collected using questionnaire for health literacy (16 items) and health practices (11 items. Pearson correlation, independent t-test and One-way ANOVA were used to analyse the data. Results: The overall mean general health literacy score was 13.04± 1.52. The majority (n=157;76.5%) of the students were found to have adequate health literacy scores, 21.5% with moderate health literacy scores and only 2% with inadequate health literacy scores. The overall mean health practice score was 32.4± 5.50. Most (n=106; 51.7%) of the students were found to have poor health practices, 44.4% had average health practices and 3.9% had good health practices. There was no significant relationship between health literacy levels and health practices of the students (p=0.63).Conclusions: Nursing students have good health literacy but more efforts should be applied to maintain such health literacy levels during and beyond the point of graduation. However, with poor health practices, there is need to investigate more on the contributing factors and develop strategies that can support good health practices among nursing students and maybe these can be transferred into their professional careers as nurses.

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Nursing Students’ Health Literacy Level and Health Practices: a Cross Sectional Study at a University in Namibia

Munangatire¹,

Tomas²,

Mareka³

2021

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“…The end of the 20th century has witnessed renewed importance in the area of information literacy. Several aspects of information literacy are already available in academia, such as health literacy (e.g., Ayre et al, 2020;Balmer et al, 2020;Meyers et al, 2020), digital literacy (e.g., Lazonder et al, 2020;Porat, Blau and Barak, 2018), financial information literacy (e.g., Acheampong, 2015;Sarigul, 2014), credit card literacy (e.g., Limbu and Sato, 2019), and mobile literacy (e.g., Jere-Folotiya et al, 2014). Financial information literacy (FIL), highlighted as a potential research area by Faulkner (2015), is increasingly becoming a grave concern to cope with today's complicated financial environment (Arceo-Gómez and Villagómez, 2017;Belousova et al, 2019;Rodrigues et al, 2019).…”

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Demographic and socio-economic differences in financial information literacy among university students

Liaqat

Mahmood

Ali

2020

Information Development

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Financial information literacy helps to manage earnings, especially among those students who study non-commerce subjects. Thus, this study attempts to explore the differences in such literacy through their demographic and socioeconomic characteristics. A well-structured instrument was used to gather data from 382 non-commerce students in universities in Pakistan using a multi stage sampling technique. Analyses were conducted through percentage of correct response technique and group comparisons. The findings indicate an average level of financial knowledge among university students. The demographic differences reveal that most of the students are male, graduate, with age above 26, enrolled in a private university, residing in dormitories, and score higher in academic subjects are more financially literate. While the socioeconomic differences indicate that those students who follow family advice, study minor finance courses, maintain a bank account, and have higher parental income are more knowledgeable about finance. The study recommends arranging awareness sessions to impart financial knowledge to students.

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“…Acknowledging the lack of empirical supports among society, many scientists conducted several researches related to health literacy among students. Some of them addressed medical students (Kaper et al, 2020;Štefková, Čepová, Kolarčik, & Madarasová Gecková, 2018), nursing student (Ayaz-Alkaya & Terzi, 2019;Balmer, King, Moloney, Moselen, & Dixon, 2020;George & DeCristofaro, 2018;Ozen, Bal Ozkaptan, Coskun, & Terzioglu, 2019), pharmacy students (Mnatzaganian, Fricovsky, Best, & Singh, 2017;Newsome, Mallawaarachchi, Conklin, & Ray, 2018), military college students (Rong et al, 2017), as well and general students (Barsell, Everhart, Miadich, & Trujillo, 2018;Elsborg, Krossdal, & Kayser, 2017;Mackert, Champlin, & Mabry-Flynn, 2017;Matthews, 2018;Rababah, Al-Hammouri, Drew, & Aldalaykeh, 2019;Rosario et al, 2017;Runk, Durham, Vongxay, & Sychareun, 2017;Sukys, Cesnaitiene, & Ossowsky, 2017;Uysal, Ceylan, & Koç, 2020). However, the specific researches focused on teacher candidate students, particularly biology teacher candidates in nowadays outbreak/pandemic condition are very scarce.…”

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Exploring COVID-19 Literacy Level among Biology Teacher Candidates

Fauzi

Husamah

Miharja

et al. 2020

EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed

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The specific researches focused on biology teacher candidates in nowadays outbreak/pandemic (COVID-19) condition are very scarce. This study aimed to describe the profile of COVID-19 literacy level possessed by biology teacher candidate students in Indonesia. The data in this survey research was collected between January and March, 2020. The selected location was Malang, one of education city and was announced as the red zone for COVID-19 spread. The total sample were 290 students. The data collection employed the questionnaire, contained of three parts i.e. information of respondent's identity, profile of information resource, attaining time profile of COVID-19 related information, and COVID-19 literacy level. The students' literacy scores were analyzed using ANOVA to analyze the presence of student's years' effect on COVID-19 literacy of biology teacher candidate students. As a result, students' years do not have a significant effect on their COVID-19 literacy. Most students had heard of COVID-19 before the disease was reported to enter Indonesia, but only few students were categorized in high level. The campus should respond immediately to these results, considering that students act as agents of information for those around them.

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Nursing students and health literacy: The effect of region and programme level

Cited by 24 publications

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Nursing Students’ Health Literacy Level and Health Practices: a Cross Sectional Study at a University in Namibia

Nursing Students’ Health Literacy Level and Health Practices: a Cross Sectional Study at a University in Namibia

Demographic and socio-economic differences in financial information literacy among university students

Exploring COVID-19 Literacy Level among Biology Teacher Candidates

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