Correlative research among adolescents' health literacy,psychological behavioral problems,and help-seeking attitude and willingness

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1009-6493.2017.16.010

Abstract：Objective:To analyze the correlation between adolescents' health literacy and psychological behavioral problems and the help-seeking attitude and willingness,and provide the basis for the development of adolescents' physical and mental health.Methods:A total of 984 adolescents were selected by the convenient method as the research objects.The health literacy scale,the professional psychological counseling attitude scale and the psychological counseling willingness questionnaire were used and combined with the psychological behavioral problems of adolescents,to evaluate the level of adolescent health literacy(low health literacy group,basic health literacy group) and adolescents' attitude and willingness on help-seeking of psychological behavioral problems.Results:In the adolescents psychological behavioral problems scale,the total score,scores of anxiety/depression,physical discomfort,mental problems,attention problems,negligence,and retreat of the basic health literacy group were lower than those of the low health literacy group,the differences were statistically significant(P<0.05).The score of help-seeking attitude and willingness of the basic health literacy group were higher than those of low health literacy group were,the differences were statistically significant(P<0.05).Pearson correlation analysis showed that the level of health literacy was negatively correlated with psychological behavior in the dimension of anxiety/depression,physical discomfort,mental problems,attention problems,negligence,and retreat(P<0.05).The level of health literacy was positively correlated with the total scores of adolescents' help-seeking attitude and willingness(P<0.05).The total score of adolescents' help-seeking attitude and willingness were negatively correlated with the psychological behavior in the dimension of anxiety/depression,physical discomfort,mental problems,attention problems,negligence,and retreat,respectively(P<0.05).Multivariate stepwise regression analysis showed that health literacy,help-seeking willingness,and attitude had an impact on psychological behavioral problems;health literacy had an impact on help-seeking attitude and willingness.Conclusions:The level of health literacy could affect the adolescents' psychological help-seeking attitude and willingness.High level of health literacy could help to improve the help-seeking attitude and willingness,to prevent the occurrence of psychological behavioral problems.