The Effect of Mothers' Health Literacy Levels on Their Knowledge and Attitudes Towards Newborn Screenings
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 425
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Health Literacy Scale
研究概览
简要总结
Health literacy, the ability to understand and use health information, is crucial in all health processes such as healthy living, disease prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and personal care. The newborn screening program (NSP) helps reduce morbidity and mortality by early diagnosing rare diseases in infants. Health literacy impacts parents' vaccination choices and attitudes, and higher health literacy is sometimes associated with lower adherence to vaccination protocols. Various studies highlight the significance of health literacy in childhood vaccinations, breastfeeding effectiveness, and attitudes toward YTP, emphasizing parents' lack of knowledge about NSP and the need for education. Notably, parents who give birth outside of hospitals have significant knowledge gaps regarding NSP.
详细描述
Health literacy involves clearly communicating and accurately understanding health information. It is defined as being related to all points in the care process, from promoting and enhancing healthy living to preventing and detecting diseases, diagnosing and decision-making, treating, and personal care.
The newborn screening program (YTP) is defined as the early diagnosis of rare presymptomatic congenital diseases by analyzing blood samples taken from infants' heels. YTP has been stated to significantly reduce morbidity and mortality rates in infants. YTP is used to detect many diseases, including hearing loss, congenital heart defects, endocrine disorders, hemoglobinopathies, congenital metabolic diseases, cystic fibrosis, spinal muscular atrophy, lysosomal storage disorders, and immunodeficiencies.
One study found that communicative health literacy was directly related to vaccination adherence compared to functional and critical health literacy. Parents with higher levels of communicative and critical health literacy were less likely to fully adhere to vaccination protocols. Attitudes towards vaccines and beliefs about the reliability of unofficial vaccine information sources serve as directly related factors in vaccination practices and are reported to mediate the relationship between health literacy and vaccination adherence.
Another study showed that health literacy was related to parents' preferences for the rotavirus vaccine. When vaccines were offered in the free market, parents with higher health literacy were less likely to vaccinate their newborns against rotavirus compared to parents with lower health literacy.
A descriptive study conducted with 279 parents of children aged 0-12 months in the central district of Kırıkkale province found that health literacy was not related to attitudes and behaviors towards childhood vaccinations.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Observational
- 观察模型
- Other
- 时间视角
- Cross Sectional
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 50 Years（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- Female
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Mothers who were in the postpartum period, postpartum or hospitalized in the obstetrics surgical ward, had at least one child, were over 18 years of age, were open to communication, and agreed to participate voluntarily in the study were included.
排除标准
- •Mothers who did not meet the inclusion criteria were excluded from the study.
研究组 & 干预措施
One grups
Mums who've just given birth, Over 18 years of age, literate mothers with at least primary school education
干预措施: No intervention, questionnaire filled out (Other)
结局指标
主要结局
Health Literacy Scale
时间窗: 6 monts
The Health Literacy Scale (HLS-14) was used. The scale consists of three sub-dimensions: Functional Health Literacy (5 items), Interactive Health Literacy (5 items), and Critical Health Literacy (4 items). The scale has a maximum score of 70 and a minimum score of 15. The higher the score, the higher the level of health literacy.
次要结局
- Knowledge and Attitude Scale about Newborn Screening(6 monts)
研究者
Abdullah Adiyaman
Graduate Student
Yuzuncu Yil University