Assessing COVID-19 Health Literacy (CoHL) and Its Relationships with Sociodemographic Features, Locus of Control and Compliance with Social Distancing Rules during the First Lockdown in France

Autor/inn/en	Rodon, Carole; Chin, Jessie; Chevalier, Aline
Titel	Assessing COVID-19 Health Literacy (CoHL) and Its Relationships with Sociodemographic Features, Locus of Control and Compliance with Social Distancing Rules during the First Lockdown in France
Quelle	In: Health Education Research, 37 (2022) 3, S.143-154 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Rodon, Carole)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0268-1153
DOI	10.1093/her/cyac009
Schlagwörter	COVID-19; Knowledge Level; Health; Foreign Countries; Pandemics; Compliance (Psychology); Public Health; Locus of Control; Mass Media Use; Health Behavior; Disease Control; News Media; Information Seeking; France + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Wissensbasis; Gesundheit; Ausland; Gesundheitswesen; Mediennutzung; Health behaviour; Gesundheitsverhalten; Nachrichtenwesen; Informationserschließung; Frankreich
Abstract	Health literacy (HL) is critical to find, understand and use health information for adopting appropriate health behavior, especially during a pandemic crisis in which people can be exposed to an overwhelming amount of information from different media. To this end, we conducted an online study to first validate the measure of COronaVIrus Disease appeared in 2019 (COVID-19) health literacy (CoHL) and then investigated its relationships with locus of control (LoC), news information search and the adoption of protective behaviors (PBs) during the first lockdown in France. We first showed the good structural and psychometric qualities of the CoHL scale on a 3-dimensional structure: the Critical dimension, the Extraction/Communicative and the Application/Communicative dimension. We then found that CoHL was associated with the adoption of PBs suggesting that people with higher CoHL tended to adopt more PBs during the first lockdown, regardless of their LoC. However, people with low CoHL would be more likely to adopt PBs if they believe that they may get COVID-19 due to the behavior and health conditions of others (high external LoC). The study has implications for the design of public health campaigns for people with inadequate HL and with a different LoC. (As Provided).
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Update	2022/4/11