Baiba Kodrica|Tamara Grizane
Changes in health literacy assessment of Vidzeme statistical region in Latvia
University of Latvia|University of Latvia
ability find understand evaluate use information individuals health covid19 pandemic become crucial therefore health literacy hl skills development latvia also oecd countries priority area insufficient hl information base latvia fundamental basis research goal determine factors influencing hl changes among population vidzeme statistical region lv008 latvia study compares authors 2020 study based european health literacy questionnaire hlseuq47 study includes survey respondents n 383 using penandpaper interviewing papi telephone interview approach various methods tests used principal axis factor analysis pfa varimax rotation confirmatory factor analysis cfa compare means independentsample ttest anova kaisermayerolkin kmo bartletts test chisquared test cronbachs spearmanbrown methods correlations pearson spearmans multiple linear regression mlr assumption testing analysis cronbachs test study identified four factors influencing health literacy access understanding evaluation use compared study conducted authors 2020 determined education positive impact factor access hl increased strongly age groups 1819 2029 3039 however among women hl level decreased compared previous study authors hlseu proportion people sufficient excellent hl european union increased overall 135 proportion people limited hl decreased 244