Relationship between Health Literacy about Online Media Usage and Health Behaviors of Undergraduate Students of the Chiangrai College

Abstract

This research aimed to study: 1) health literacy about online media usage, 2) health behaviors and 3) relationship between health literacy about online media usage and health behaviors of undergraduate students of the Chiangrai College. The sample size of 286 people consisted of undergraduate students of the Chiangrai College. The instrument was the questionnaire. The assessment included health literacy about online media usage and health behaviors with the reliability is 0.923, 0.845 and 0.911 respectively. The statistics used in data analysis was percentage (%) mean (x), standard deviation (S.D.) and Pearson’s product moment correlation.

           The results showed that 1) health literacy about online media usage were at high level (x = 4.50 , S.D. = 0.19) ; 2) health behaviors, were at high level (x = 3.47 , S.D. = 0.20) ; and 3) relationship between health literacy about online media usage and health behaviors of undergraduate students of the Chiangrai College was moderately positive with statistic significant (r= 0.584 , p<0.01).