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Relationship between health literacy in substance use and alcohol consumption and tobacco use among adolescents, Northeast Thailand

BACKGROUND: Health literacy (HL) is an important role-play in health risk behaviors such as alcohol drinking and smoking. Inadequate HL in substance use (HLSU) is a barrier to reduce the risk of alcohol and tobacco use. This study aims to investigate the association of HLSU with alcohol consumption...

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Autores principales: Yangyuen, Suneerat, Mahaweerawat, Chatchada, Thitisutthi, Sawan, Mahaweerawat, Udomsak
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8150066/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34084867
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jehp.jehp_603_20
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author Yangyuen, Suneerat
Mahaweerawat, Chatchada
Thitisutthi, Sawan
Mahaweerawat, Udomsak
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Mahaweerawat, Chatchada
Thitisutthi, Sawan
Mahaweerawat, Udomsak
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description BACKGROUND: Health literacy (HL) is an important role-play in health risk behaviors such as alcohol drinking and smoking. Inadequate HL in substance use (HLSU) is a barrier to reduce the risk of alcohol and tobacco use. This study aims to investigate the association of HLSU with alcohol consumption and tobacco use among Thai adolescents. Hence, the strengthening of HL program intervention may applied to reduce substance abuse among Thai adolescents. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This was a cross-sectional study conducted on 1087 university students studying in three universities located in northeastern area with multistage sampling methods by geographical areas. The data were collected by self-administered questionnaire. Multiple logistic regression was applied to determine the effect of HLSU of alcohol consumption and tobacco use. RESULTS: Most adolescents were drinkers (60.7%) and about 20.7% were smokers. Approximately 40% of them reported as inadequate HLSU. Adolescents with inadequate HLSU and a high level of positive alcohol expectancies and smoking outcome expectancies (SOE) were more likely to drink alcohol and smoke. Conversely, those who had a high level of negative alcohol drinking and SOE were less likely to consume alcohol and tobacco. CONCLUSION: Adolescents’ alcohol consumption and tobacco use were influenced by HL, hence improving adolescents’ HLSU could help prevent or reduce the risk of drinking and smoking behaviors.
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spelling pubmed-81500662021-06-02 Relationship between health literacy in substance use and alcohol consumption and tobacco use among adolescents, Northeast Thailand Yangyuen, Suneerat Mahaweerawat, Chatchada Thitisutthi, Sawan Mahaweerawat, Udomsak J Educ Health Promot Original Article BACKGROUND: Health literacy (HL) is an important role-play in health risk behaviors such as alcohol drinking and smoking. Inadequate HL in substance use (HLSU) is a barrier to reduce the risk of alcohol and tobacco use. This study aims to investigate the association of HLSU with alcohol consumption and tobacco use among Thai adolescents. Hence, the strengthening of HL program intervention may applied to reduce substance abuse among Thai adolescents. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This was a cross-sectional study conducted on 1087 university students studying in three universities located in northeastern area with multistage sampling methods by geographical areas. The data were collected by self-administered questionnaire. Multiple logistic regression was applied to determine the effect of HLSU of alcohol consumption and tobacco use. RESULTS: Most adolescents were drinkers (60.7%) and about 20.7% were smokers. Approximately 40% of them reported as inadequate HLSU. Adolescents with inadequate HLSU and a high level of positive alcohol expectancies and smoking outcome expectancies (SOE) were more likely to drink alcohol and smoke. Conversely, those who had a high level of negative alcohol drinking and SOE were less likely to consume alcohol and tobacco. CONCLUSION: Adolescents’ alcohol consumption and tobacco use were influenced by HL, hence improving adolescents’ HLSU could help prevent or reduce the risk of drinking and smoking behaviors. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021-03-31 /pmc/articles/PMC8150066/ /pubmed/34084867 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jehp.jehp_603_20 Text en Copyright: © 2021 Journal of Education and Health Promotion https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Thitisutthi, Sawan
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title Relationship between health literacy in substance use and alcohol consumption and tobacco use among adolescents, Northeast Thailand
title_full Relationship between health literacy in substance use and alcohol consumption and tobacco use among adolescents, Northeast Thailand
title_fullStr Relationship between health literacy in substance use and alcohol consumption and tobacco use among adolescents, Northeast Thailand
title_full_unstemmed Relationship between health literacy in substance use and alcohol consumption and tobacco use among adolescents, Northeast Thailand
title_short Relationship between health literacy in substance use and alcohol consumption and tobacco use among adolescents, Northeast Thailand
title_sort relationship between health literacy in substance use and alcohol consumption and tobacco use among adolescents, northeast thailand
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8150066/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34084867
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jehp.jehp_603_20
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