Kim Su Hyun, Utz Sonja
College of Nursing, Research Institute of Nursing Science, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea.
Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
Nurs Health Sci. 2018 Sep;20(3):355-360. doi: 10.1111/nhs.12413. Epub 2018 Feb 28.
Low health literacy has been recognized as a potential barrier to obtaining knowledge and maintaining self-care in older people. However, little is known about information-seeking preference in relation to health literacy among older people. The aim of the present study was to understand the influence of health literacy on the information-seeking preference of older people. A total of 129 community-residing Korean older people completed a survey in 2016. The findings revealed that health literacy was a significant predictor of information-seeking preference in older people after controlling for demographic and illness variables. Our study highlights the important need to incorporate strategies to increase the desire for information seeking in older people, in addition to adopting communication strategies that address low health literacy.
健康素养低已被视为老年人获取知识和维持自我保健的潜在障碍。然而，关于老年人健康素养与信息寻求偏好之间的关系却知之甚少。本研究的目的是了解健康素养对老年人信息寻求偏好的影响。2016年，共有129名居住在社区的韩国老年人完成了一项调查。研究结果显示，在控制了人口统计学和疾病变量后，健康素养是老年人信息寻求偏好的一个重要预测因素。我们的研究强调，除了采用应对低健康素养的沟通策略外，迫切需要纳入一些策略来增强老年人寻求信息的意愿。
