Health Literacy and COVID-19 Awareness among Preservice Primary School Teachers and Influencing Factors in Turkey

Autor/inn/en	Öztürk, Fatma Özlem; Tezel, Ayfer
Titel	Health Literacy and COVID-19 Awareness among Preservice Primary School Teachers and Influencing Factors in Turkey
Quelle	In: Journal of School Health, 92 (2022) 12, S.1128-1136 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Öztürk, Fatma Özlem) ORCID (Tezel, Ayfer)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-4391
DOI	10.1111/josh.13231
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Preservice Teachers; Primary Education; Health Materials; Information Literacy; COVID-19; Pandemics; Knowledge Level; Gender Differences; Predictor Variables; Age Differences; Turkey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Primarbereich; Informationskompetenz; Wissensbasis; Geschlechterkonflikt; Prädiktor; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Türkei
Abstract	Background: Primary school teachers play an important role in furnishing children with basic knowledge about health literacy and awareness of COVID-19. This study was conducted to determine the levels of health literacy and COVID-19 awareness among preservice primary school teachers and the factors associated with this. Methods: The sample of this cross-sectional and correlational study consists of 978 preservice primary school teachers studying at 4 major universities in Turkey. The participation rate was 90.14%. Data were collected with 3 questionnaires, the Descriptive Characteristics Form, the Health Literacy Scale, and the COVID-19 Awareness Scale. Results: The mean score of the Health Literacy scale was 105.16 (SD = 13.04). The mean scores of the Contagion Precaution Awareness, Awareness of Following Current Developments, and Hygiene Precaution Awareness subscales of the Coronavirus Awareness Scale were 34.27 (SD = 6.19), 12.94 (SD = 4.34), and 11.69 (SD = 3.60), respectively. It was determined that the total health literacy score was affected by gender, school, and grade/year (freshman, sophomore, junior, senior) and that COVID-19 awareness was affected by gender, age, grade/year, school, having contracted COVID-19 or not, and being vaccinated or not in the various subscales (p < 0.05). Conclusions: Preservice primary school teachers' health literacy was found to be sufficient with a moderate level of COVID-19 awareness. We recommend planning interventions for preservice primary school teachers that will improve their health literacy and COVID-19 awareness, taking influential factors into account when doing this planning. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01