Ji Young Kim|Min Hyun Suk
Health Literacy and Health Promoting Behaviors in adolescents
purpose aims study identify health literacy health promoting behaviors adolescents examine relationship variables methods descriptive correlational study design used selfadministrated questionnaires total 212 thirdyear middle school students g province conveniently sampled korea health literacy assessment tool2 korean functional health literacy test health promoting lifestyle profile used data analyses performed using spsswin 210 results linguistic health literacy functional health literacy scores tex3718pm1774tex tex1186pm277tex respectively health promoting behaviors tex295pm034tex relationships linguistic health literacy health promoting behaviors r405 p001 functional health literacy health promoting behaviors r168 p001 showed statistically significant positive correlations linguistic health literacy also positively related functional health literacy r196 p001 statistical significance conclusion degree health literacy middle school students somewhat low significantly correlated health promoting behaviors improve health promoting behaviors needs increase health literacy