Peggy Pui-Lai Or|Bonny Yee-Man Wong|Joanne W.Y. Chung
To investigate the association between the health literacy and hand hygiene practices of the older adults to help them fight against infectious diseases in Hong Kong
Education University of Hong Kong|University of Hong Kong|Education University of Hong Kong
h3backgroundh3 proper hand hygiene helps prevent infectious diseases health literacy plays critical role preventive health behaviors remains unclear proper hand hygiene practices cannot sustained role health literacy plays older adults fight infectious diseases h3methodsh3 convenience sample 433 old adults aged 65 recruited hygiene practices health literacy evaluated using structured questionnaire adopted centre health protection chinese version hlsasiaq questionnaire h3resultsh3 percentage distribution hand hygiene performance always never 1810 majority 6328 274 classified inadequate health literacy 025 meager 162 7 excellent health literacy 420150 spearman correlation showed significant positive relationship ipi 005 participants health literacy hand hygiene practices h3conclusionsh3 health literacy hand hygiene positively related helping older adults fight infectious diseases sustain proper hand hygiene practices provide frequent hand hygiene training older adults