Nobuya Kimura|Kentaro Obara|Naoko Akibayashi|Takako Miyamoto
Association between health literacy and behavior regarding health checkups and health counseling in Japanese employees: A comprehensive health literacy survey of a Japanese railway company
Rakuno Gakuen University|Hokkaido hospital|Hokkaido hospital|Hokkaido hospital
globally health literacy considered important healthy ageing however knowledge study investigated comprehensive health literacy japanese employeesthis study aimed examine comprehensive health literacy employees company japanese railway company determine association health literacy behavior regarding health checkups health counseling employeesa representative sample company 541 employees selected random sampling divided sample 20 groups based gender age night shift work administrative position groups compared employee distribution company selfadministered japanese version 47item european health literacy survey questionnaire distributed participants via mail may 1 2017 may 30 2017 questionnaire consists three domains index health care health literacy health care health literacy index hchl disease prevention health literacy disease prevention health literacy index dphl health promotion health literacy health promotion health literacy index hphl additionally general health literacy general health literacy index genhl also assessed statistical analyses performed identify association health literacy behavior regarding health checkups health counseling employees company furthermore compared health literacy present sample samples past studies nakayama et al 2015 goto et al 2018a total 417 questionnaires returned health literacy scores calculated based valid responses 381 participants mean health literacy scores company genhl hchl dphl hphl 251 246 279 228 respectively mean health literacy scores survey nakayama et al genhl hchl dphl hphl 253 257 227 255 respectively survey goto et al 2979 2923 3252 2760 respectively significant difference participant characteristics genhl scores contrast significant difference association genhl health counseling terms number times health counseling provided workplace however significant difference wish receive health counseling gen hl scoresthe health literacy railway company low results study past studies demonstrate similar trends health literacy additionally genhl scores likely increase number people wished receive health counseling increased