Relationship between parents' teaching way,understanding social support and health literacy in college students

Objective:To explore the correlations between the parents' teaching way,understanding social support and health literacy in college students.Methods:One thousand seven hundred and eighty-three students from three colleges of Bengbu were investigated using the parents' teaching way questionnaire,understanding social support scale,general demographic information and health literacy questionnaire.Results:The scores of the students' health literacy,health knowledge and belief,healthy life-style and behavior,and health skill were 61.11,62.75,51.98 and 80.80,respectively.Logistic regression analysis showed that the gender,grade,profession were the main influencing factors of the health literacy in college students.College students' health literacy was significantly negatively and positively correlated with the parents' rejection factors and parents' emotional warmth factors,respectively(P<0.01),and which was not correlated with parents' over protective factors.The health literacy of college students was significantly positive correlated with each dimension of understanding social support(P<0.01).Conclusions:The health literacy level of college students is low,and the three dimensions of which is unbalanced.The health skill level,and healthy lifestyle and behavior literacy levels in college students were higher and lower,respectively.The parents' emotional warmth style and understanding social support can improve the health literacy level of college students,but for the parental refusal rearing pattern,it is contrary.The gender,grade,profession,parental refusal,mother's emotional warmth,mother's excessive protection,total score of understanding social support,and friend support can affect the health literacy of college students.