The Relationship Between Health Literacy and Condom Use Behavior among students at an educational institution in Nakhon Sawan province

10.30207/AHLA.202312.0020

Sasigan Malakitsakul

condom use behavior ； health literacy ； students

The Proceeding of the 9th AHLA International Health Literacy Conference: Health Literacy and Social Resilience

2023（2023 / 12 / 01）

21 - 21

英文

Background: Health literacy skills in students related to condom use is become more relevant to them understands, actions and behaviors to prevention of sexual transmitted disease (STDs) and unintended pregnancy. Objectives: This research aimed to study health literacy level on condom use, condom use behaviors, and relationship between health literacy and condom use behavior among students at educational institute in Nakhon Sawan province. Method: Population consisted of 1,747 students, level 1^(st)-4^(th) level that studying at institute. The samples size were 355 students calculated by Kejcie & Morgan table and selected by Simple Random Sampling. Data were applied during 1-28 February, 2023 using Google forms as an online survey. Data was analyzed using percentage, mean, standard deviation and Pearson product moment correlation coefficient. Results: The result of majority of samples reported female (60.27%), 18-24 years old (93.24%), 2^(nd) level (35.77%) had sufficient level (87.62%) of the health literacy skill, condom use behavior had middle level (75.97%). Overall relationship between the health literacy and condom use behavior were statically significant with p-value < .05 (r =0.521, p-value <.001) Conclusion: This study showed that the majority of students had sufficient level of overall health literacy and was correlated with their actual condom use behaviors. Monitoring and evaluation are essential to Health literacy and condom use behavior program of students. That should be implemented continuously in improving their health literacy condom use behavior which may be to prevention of sexual transmitted diseases and unintended pregnancy, too.