Investigation about the Health Literacy for subjects of the Specific Health Guidance program

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24593459
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Community health/Gerontological nurisng
• Research Institution: Juntendo University
• Principal Investigator: SUZUKI MICHIE 順天堂大学, 保健看護学部, 教授 (50300166)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): KAMINIWA Junko 西武文理大学, 看護学部, 教授 (20440589) ; IWASHIMIZU Tomomi 順天堂大学, 保健看護学部, 准教授 (60516748) ; YAMAMURA Emiko 聖隷クリストファー大学, 看護学部, 講師 (90340116)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 特定保健指導 / ヘルスリテラシー / ポピュレーションアプローチ / クラスター分析

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We stratified subjects receiving specific health guidance into groups depending on whether they had satisfactory, fair, or poor health literacy for improving metabolic syndrome. The percentage of subjects who responded affirmatively to the statement, “I have someone I exercise with and have experience in performing activities that promote good health,” was significantly higher in the “satisfactory” group than in the other groups. In addition, the subjects in this group showed improvements in body weight, BMI, abdominal circumference, LDL, HDL, and HbA1c in a health checkup performed after a year. Our results suggest that in order to increase the percentage of people with “satisfactory” health literacy, population-based strategies, such as providing opportunities for knowledge acquisition and encouraging activities with local organizations to promote awareness through participation, are effective.

Free Research Field

医歯薬学