FACTORS RELATED TO HEALTH LITERACY IN ADOLESCENTS AT PEKANBARU CITY

Abstract

Teenagers in the current era are experiencing a reading crisis, according to UNISCO, the reading interest of the Indonesian people is very concerning, only 0.001% of 1,000 Indonesians, only 1 person is an avid reader. According to initial survey data conducted at Senior High School 8 Pekanbaru by interviewing 10 students, there were 8 students who rarely carried out health literacy and 2 people who often carried out health literacy because they carried out health literacy when they received health complaints. The purpose of this study was to determine the factors related to health literacy in adolescents at Senior High School 8 Pekanbaru in 2023. This type of quantitative research had a cross sectional study design. The population in this study were all of the students in X and XI grades Senior High School 8 Pekanbaru for a total of 897 and the samples of this research is 161 respondents. The measuring tool used in this study is questionnaire. The sampling technique used in this study is the Proportional Random Sampling technique. Data analysis was performed univariately and bivariately with the chi-square test (a = 0.05). The results showed that there was a P value <α 0.05, attitude (P value = 0.025 <0.05), access to information media (P value = 0.000 <0.05), the role of teachers (P value = 0.011 < 0.05) and the results of the P value > α 0.05 are the role of the family (P value = 0.479 > 0.05), as well as peers with health literacy (P value = 0.427 > 0.05). From these results it can be concluded that of the five variables there are three related variables (attitude, access to information media, teacher's role) and two unrelated variables (role of family, peers) with health literacy in adolescents at Senior High School 8 Pekanbaru