Relationship of occupational health and safety training with health literacy among employees working in the various lines of business

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dc.authoridSEVINC, NERGIZ/0000-0003-4763-1902
dc.contributor.authorSevinc, Nergiz
dc.contributor.authorKorkut, Burcu
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-29T16:06:34Z
dc.date.available2024-09-29T16:06:34Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.departmentKarabük Üniversitesien_US
dc.description.abstractBACKGROUND Health literacy is vital for people's ability to manage health. It has been known for a long time that the importance of education in increasing health literacy is an undeniable fact. The first aim of this study was to investigate the health literacy levels of employees working in different business lines receiving service from the occupational health and safety unit. The second aim was to reveal how health literacy levels are affected according to the training duration. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted on 202 employees receiving service from the Karabuk occupational health and safety unit. The employees were divided into three groups as workers, officers and others.All employees were given the questionnaire consisting of 31 questions including sociodemographic characteristics and the adult health literacy scale. A face-to-face interview was performed with each of the employees. Kruskal-Wallis H and Mann-Whitney U tests were used to analyze the data. RESULTS The range of adult health literacy scale scores of the employees was 4-23. There was no significant difference in adult health literacy scale scores between age groups (p=0.38). The percentage of employees who received more than 16 hours training course was 19.3%, 20.6%, and 46.7% for workers, civil servants and other employees, respectively. Adult health literacy scale scores increased in proportion to the amount of training the employees received (p=0.001). CONCLUSION This study reveals that occupational health training has a positive effect on health literacy.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.18051/UnivMed.2020.v39.171-177
dc.identifier.endpage177en_US
dc.identifier.issn1907-3062
dc.identifier.issn2407-2230
dc.identifier.issue3en_US
dc.identifier.startpage171en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.18051/UnivMed.2020.v39.171-177
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14619/6915
dc.identifier.volume39en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000600012900004en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityN/Aen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherTrisakti Univ, Fac Medicineen_US
dc.relation.ispartofUniversa Medicinaen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.subjectHealth literacyen_US
dc.subjectemployeesen_US
dc.subjectvarious lines of businessen_US
dc.subjectoccupational health and safety uniten_US
dc.subjectadult health literacy scaleen_US
dc.titleRelationship of occupational health and safety training with health literacy among employees working in the various lines of businessen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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