How Health Literacy impacts Polytechnic of Leiria Students?

Teixeira Ascenso, Rita Margarida; Luis, Luis; Dias, Sara; Gonçalves, Dulce

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Teixeira Ascenso, Rita Margarida

Luis, Luis

Dias, Sara

Gonçalves, Dulce

Abstract(s)

In 2021, aHealth Literacy(HL) evaluation among university students revealed notable limitations in HL. To assess the general HL of populations comprehensively, the European HLSurvey Questionnaire (HLS-EU-Q) was developed, encompassing 12 subdomains to provide a broad perspective on public health. In 2014, the questionnaire was adapted for use in Portugal, resulting in the HLS-EU-PT version, validated through a 16-question survey (HLS-EU-PT-Q16).Global HL andthreedomains’ indexes and levelswere determined, namely Healthcare (HC), Disease prevention (DP), and Health Promotion (HP). The HLSEU-Q16-PT assessment demonstrated satisfactory internal consistency, with 0.8834Cronbach's alpha coefficient.In this study, an online survey distributedbetween 2020-2021among Polytechnic of Leiria academia allowed data collection from various stakeholders, including 251 students, 109 professors, 15 researchers, and 55 other staff. From the430 responses,75 questions were analysed. The saved data wasthefocus of this work, regarding a thesis of the first edition of the master’s in data science to analysethe 251 surveyed studentsand their HL. The results revealed that thesestudents have lower HL index, and, in this case study,health areadegreeor school impactsHL.

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CENTERIS - International Conference on ENTERprise Information Systems / ProjMAN - International Conference on Project MANagement / HCist - International Conference on Health and Social Care Information Systems and Technologies

Keywords

Health Literacy Polytechnic of Leiria Students Classification models

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http://hdl.handle.net/10400.8/13156

Citation

Rita M.T. Ascenso, Luis Luis, Sara Simões Dias, Dulce Gonçalves, How Health Literacy impacts Polytechnic of Leiria Students?, Procedia Computer Science, Volume 256, 2025, Pages 964-971, ISSN 1877-0509, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2025.02.201.