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The Environmental Health Literacy of Italian General Population: The SPeRA Cross-Sectional Study
Environmental health literacy (EHL) includes knowledge of health effects due to environmental exposure and skills to protect health from environmental risks. This study investigated some aspects about EHL of the Italian adult population. Data were collected through questionnaires (n = 672) and analy...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10002404/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36901494 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20054486 |
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author | Bert, Fabrizio Gea, Marta Previti, Christian Massocco, Gregorio Lo Moro, Giuseppina Scaioli, Giacomo Schilirò, Tiziana Siliquini, Roberta |
author_facet | Bert, Fabrizio Gea, Marta Previti, Christian Massocco, Gregorio Lo Moro, Giuseppina Scaioli, Giacomo Schilirò, Tiziana Siliquini, Roberta |
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description | Environmental health literacy (EHL) includes knowledge of health effects due to environmental exposure and skills to protect health from environmental risks. This study investigated some aspects about EHL of the Italian adult population. Data were collected through questionnaires (n = 672) and analysed through multivariable logistic regression models. Results showed that participants with incomplete/insufficient self-perceived knowledge of health effects due to environmental risks verified less information about this topic (adjOR = 0.38 (CI95% 0.25–0.59)/0.09 (0.04–0.21); p < 0.001/<0.001), potentially spreading fake news. The self-perceived exposure to pollution was higher in participants living in towns than in rural areas (small, medium, big towns adjOR = 2.37 (1.41–3.97), 2.10 (1.11–3.96), 3.11 (1.53–6.31); p = 0.001, 0.022, 0.002) and lower in participants with incomplete/insufficient knowledge about pollution effects (adjOR = 0.54 (0.32–0.92)/0.30 (0.13–0.67); p = 0.022/0.004), confirming that knowledge is essential to achieve awareness. Since insufficient self-perceived knowledge of pollution effects was negatively associated with the adoption of pro-environmental behaviours (adjOR = 0.37 (0.15–0.90); p = 0.028), EHL was proven to be a virtuous behaviour promoter. Finally, a lack of institutional support, time and cost were identified as barriers to pro-environmental behaviours. This study provided useful data to design prevention programmes, underlined some barriers to pro-environmental behaviours and highlighted the need to promote attitudes and behaviours aimed at contrasting environmental pollution, thus protecting human health. |
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spelling | pubmed-100024042023-03-11 The Environmental Health Literacy of Italian General Population: The SPeRA Cross-Sectional Study Bert, Fabrizio Gea, Marta Previti, Christian Massocco, Gregorio Lo Moro, Giuseppina Scaioli, Giacomo Schilirò, Tiziana Siliquini, Roberta Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Environmental health literacy (EHL) includes knowledge of health effects due to environmental exposure and skills to protect health from environmental risks. This study investigated some aspects about EHL of the Italian adult population. Data were collected through questionnaires (n = 672) and analysed through multivariable logistic regression models. Results showed that participants with incomplete/insufficient self-perceived knowledge of health effects due to environmental risks verified less information about this topic (adjOR = 0.38 (CI95% 0.25–0.59)/0.09 (0.04–0.21); p < 0.001/<0.001), potentially spreading fake news. The self-perceived exposure to pollution was higher in participants living in towns than in rural areas (small, medium, big towns adjOR = 2.37 (1.41–3.97), 2.10 (1.11–3.96), 3.11 (1.53–6.31); p = 0.001, 0.022, 0.002) and lower in participants with incomplete/insufficient knowledge about pollution effects (adjOR = 0.54 (0.32–0.92)/0.30 (0.13–0.67); p = 0.022/0.004), confirming that knowledge is essential to achieve awareness. Since insufficient self-perceived knowledge of pollution effects was negatively associated with the adoption of pro-environmental behaviours (adjOR = 0.37 (0.15–0.90); p = 0.028), EHL was proven to be a virtuous behaviour promoter. Finally, a lack of institutional support, time and cost were identified as barriers to pro-environmental behaviours. This study provided useful data to design prevention programmes, underlined some barriers to pro-environmental behaviours and highlighted the need to promote attitudes and behaviours aimed at contrasting environmental pollution, thus protecting human health. MDPI 2023-03-02 /pmc/articles/PMC10002404/ /pubmed/36901494 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20054486 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Bert, Fabrizio Gea, Marta Previti, Christian Massocco, Gregorio Lo Moro, Giuseppina Scaioli, Giacomo Schilirò, Tiziana Siliquini, Roberta The Environmental Health Literacy of Italian General Population: The SPeRA Cross-Sectional Study |
title | The Environmental Health Literacy of Italian General Population: The SPeRA Cross-Sectional Study |
title_full | The Environmental Health Literacy of Italian General Population: The SPeRA Cross-Sectional Study |
title_fullStr | The Environmental Health Literacy of Italian General Population: The SPeRA Cross-Sectional Study |
title_full_unstemmed | The Environmental Health Literacy of Italian General Population: The SPeRA Cross-Sectional Study |
title_short | The Environmental Health Literacy of Italian General Population: The SPeRA Cross-Sectional Study |
title_sort | environmental health literacy of italian general population: the spera cross-sectional study |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10002404/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36901494 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20054486 |
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