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Assessing the Health Literacy Level of Mothers of Under 5-year-old Children With Malnutrition

机译：评估营养不良的5岁以下儿童的母亲的健康素养水平

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Introduction: Health literacy is defined as the ability to read, understand, and utilization of the basic health information to lead a better and healthy life. Low health literacy has a direct relationship with lower health and increased hospitalization.Objective: This study is aimed to investigate the health literacy level in mothers of children under the age of 5 years suffering from malnutrition in families and been supported by the health centers in Bojnourd City, Iran.Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional and analytical study, using cluster sampling method, was performed on 448 mothers with malnourished children under 5 years of age. Malnutrition in children depends on three indicators of weight-for-age, weight-for-height and height-for-age to determine their underweight, wasting and stunting status. To measure the level of health literacy in mothers, the test for functional health literacy in adults was employed. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and Kruskal-Wallis statistical test.Results: Based on the study results, the prevalence of underweight, stunting, and wasting of children were 83.9%, 7.1% and 8.9%, respectively. The average health literacy score of mothers was 66.98% out of which 32.1% had an inadequate level of health literacy. Comparison of the mean of health literacy scores by Kruskal-Wallis test showed that mothers with occupation and education had different levels of health literacy while mothers who were employees with a university degree had significantly higher levels of health literacy (P=0.001).Conclusion: Increasing the health literacy in mothers may be an effective way to prevent malnutrition among children. Most of the mothers in this study had an adequate level of health literacy, and the percentage of mothers with inadequate and marginal health literacy was also in considerable number. Given the importance of the health literacy, it seems necessary to have more concern and attention in this regard.
机译：简介：健康素养被定义为阅读，理解和利用基本健康信息以过上更好和健康生活的能力。较低的健康素养与较低的健康状况和更高的住院率直接相关。目的：本研究旨在调查5岁以下家庭营养不良儿童的母亲的健康素养水平，并得到Bojnourd健康中心的支持材料和方法：本研究采用整群抽样方法，对448名5岁以下营养不良的母亲进行了横断面和分析性研究。儿童营养不良取决于年龄，体重和身高的三个指标，以确定其体重不足，消瘦和发育迟缓的状况。为了衡量母亲的健康素养水平，采用了成年人的功能性健康素养测试。结果：基于研究结果，儿童体重不足，发育不良和消瘦的患病率分别为83.9％，7.1％和8.9％。母亲的平均健康素养得分为66.98％，其中32.1％的母亲的健康素养水平不足。通过Kruskal-Wallis检验对健康素养得分的平均值进行比较，结果显示，具有职业和文化程度的母亲具有不同的健康素养水平，而拥有大学学历的母亲的健康素养水平显着更高（P = 0.001）。提高母亲的健康素养可能是预防儿童营养不良的有效方法。这项研究中的大多数母亲具有足够的健康素养水平，而健康素养不足和处于边缘地位的母亲所占的百分比也相当可观。考虑到健康素养的重要性，在这方面似乎需要更多的关注和关注。

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