Investigating the Relationship between Health Literacy and Occupational Well-being of University Employees Abadan Medical Sciences

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Elham Ehsanifarid 1
Zarrin Zarrinabadi 2
Azin Jafari 3
1 PhD Student, Public Management, Human Resources Management, Department of management, University of Isfahan (khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran.
2 Assistant Professor, Medical Library and Information Sciences, School of Allied Medical Sciences, Abadan University of Medical Sciences, Abadan, Iran
3 Msc, Health Care Management, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
10.48305/him.2023.41279.1068
Abstract
 
Introduction: The level of health literacy and occupational well-being of health system employees who are in charge of education and health of society is important. This study endeavoored to determine the relationship between health literacy and occupational well-being of the employees in the Abadan University of Medical Sciences in 1401.
Methods: This cross-sectional-analytical and correlational study was conducted among 185 employees of Abadan University of Medical Sciences who were selected through cluster random sampling method. Data collection tools were demographic information, health literacy and occupational well-being. questionnaires. The collected data were analyzed through Pearson's descriptive.
Results: The average health literacy score of the participants was 64.9% (adequate) and 18.9% (excellent). In the survey of obtaining information among the employees, the major source of obtaining health information was on the Internet and questions from doctors and healthcare workers (61.1%), followed by radio and television (16.8%), booklets, pamphlets, and educational brochures, and advertisement (9.7%). In terms of occupational well-being, most of the research units were 64.3% (in average level), 28.6% (in very good level) and only 7% (in poor level). The findings showed that the level of health literacy can be affected by individuals' work area and the relationship between health literacy and occupational well-being was not significant (P-value>0.05). The investigation on the relationship between occupational well-being and health literacy dimensions showed that occupational well-being has a significant and direct relationship only with the dimension of reading skill (P-value=0.03).
Conclusion: Occupational well-being had no significant relationship with individuals' health literacy. It seems that other variables that were not investigated in this study can play a greater role in this field. Considering the position of health system trustees, these findings can be used by policy makers in planning and developing health literacy and occupational well-being of employees.

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