Correctional Officers’ Health Literacy and Practices for Pulmonary Tuberculosis Prevention in Prison
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Design and Participants
2.2. Data Collection and Measurements
2.3. Health Literacy Assessment
2.4. Practices for TB Prevention and Control in Prison
2.5. Data Processing and Analysis
2.6. Ethics Approval
3. Results
3.1. Description of the Participants
3.2. Health Literacy for TB Prevention and Control and Participants’ Knowledge on TB
3.3. Practices for TB Prevention and Control
3.4. Associations between TB Prevention and Control Practices and Demographics with HL Dimensions
4. Discussion
Limitations
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
Abbreviations
TB | Pulmonary tuberculosis |
HL | Health literacy |
CO | Correctional officer |
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Characteristics | Number (%) |
---|---|
Sex | |
Male | 148 (71.2) |
Female | 60 (28.8) |
Age | |
<35 | 59 (28.4) |
35–44 | 83 (39.9) |
45–59 | 66 (31.7) |
Mean 40.4, SD 8.5, min 24, max 59 | |
Marital status | |
Single/widow/separate | 83 (39.9) |
married | 125 (60.1) |
Education status | |
Secondary school/diploma | 41 (19.7) |
Bachelor’s degree | 126 (60.6) |
Master’s degree | 41 (19.7) |
Non-Communicable Disease | |
Absence | 169 (81.3) |
Presence | 39 (18.7) |
History of training on epidemic prevention and control | |
Ever | 19 (9.1) |
Never | 189 (90.9) |
Current working duration (year) | |
1–4 | 72 (34.6) |
5–9 | 28 (13.5) |
10–14 | 37 (17.8) |
15–19 | 39 (18.8) |
>20 | 32 (14.4) |
Dimensions | Skill Level: Number (%) | |
---|---|---|
Inadequate | Adequate | |
Cognitive skill | 144 (69.2) | 64 (30.8) |
Total of score 17; mean, 12.87; SD, 1.47; min, 8; max, 16 | ||
Access skill | 95 (45.7) | 113 (54.3) |
Media literacy skill | 70 (33.7) | 138 (66.3) |
Communication skill | 110 (52.9) | 98 (47.1) |
Decision skill | 76 (36.5) | 132 (63.5) |
Self-management skill | 58 (27.9) | 150 (72.1) |
Total of HL | 77 (37.0) | 131 (63.0) |
Total of score 120; mean, 88.15; SD, 17.68; min, 42; max, 120 |
Practice | Practices: Number (%) | ||
---|---|---|---|
Poor (<60.0) | Moderate (60–79.9) | Good (≥80.0) | |
Personal prevention | 1 (0.5) | 50 (24.0) | 157 (75.5) |
Preventing the TB transmission | 6 (2.9) | 47 (22.6) | 155 (74.6) |
Overall | 1 (0.5) | 44 (21.2) | 163 (78.4) |
Factors | Practices: Number (%) | p | |
---|---|---|---|
Poor-Moderate (n = 45) | Good (n = 163) | ||
Sex | 0.462 | ||
Male | 34 (23.0) | 114 (77.0) | |
Female | 11 (18.3) | 49 (81.7) | |
Age (year) | 0.244 | ||
<40 | 24 (25.3) | 71 (74.7) | |
40–59 | 21 (18.6) | 92 (81.4) | |
Educational status | 0.185 | ||
Secondary school or diploma | 12 (29.3) | 29 (70.3) | |
Bachelor’s and Master’s degree | 33 (19.8) | 134 (80.2) | |
Current working duration (y) | 0.902 | ||
<10 | 22 (22.0) | 78 (78.0) | |
≥10 | 33 (21.3) | 85 (78.7) | |
Marital status | 0.501 | ||
Single/widow | 16 (19.3) | 67 (80.7) | |
Married | 29 (23.2) | 96 (76.8) | |
NCDs | 0.293 | ||
Absence | 39 (23.1) | 130 (76.9) | |
Presence | 6 (15.4) | 33 (84.6) | |
History of training on epidemic prevention and control | 0.217 | ||
Never | 43 (22.8) | 146 (77.2) | |
Ever | 2 (10.5) | 17 (89.5) | |
Cognitive skill | 0.250 | ||
Inadequate | 28 (19.4) | 116 (80.6) | |
Adequate | 17 (26.6) | 47 (73.4) | |
Access skill | 0.004 | ||
Inadequate | 29 (30.5) | 66 (69.5) | |
Adequate | 16 (14.2) | 97 (85.8) | |
Media literacy skill | <0.001 | ||
Inadequate | 25 (35.7) | 45 (64.3) | |
Adequate | 20 (14.5) | 118 (85.5) | |
Communication skill | <0.001 | ||
Inadequate | 41 (37.3) | 69 (62.7) | |
Adequate | 4 (4.1) | 94 (95.9) | |
Decision skill | <0.001 | ||
Inadequate | 34 (44.7) | 42 (55.3) | |
Adequate | 11 (8.3) | 121 (91.7) | |
Self-management skill | <0.001 | ||
Inadequate | 26 (44.8) | 32 (55.2) | |
Adequate | 19 (12.7) | 131 (87.3) |
Factors | Adj. Odds Ratio | 95% CI | p |
---|---|---|---|
Education (bachelor-higher vs. secondary-diploma #) | 3.25 | 1.12, 9.39 | 0.030 * |
Access skill (adequate vs. inadequate #) | 0.31 | 0.09, 1.01 | 0.051 |
Media literacy skill (adequate vs. inadequate #) | 0.82 | 0.29, 2.37 | 0.718 |
Communication skill (adequate vs. inadequate #) | 7.92 | 2.15, 29.24 | 0.002 * |
Decision skill/ (adequate vs. inadequate #) | 6.00 | 1.86, 19.36 | 0.003 * |
Self-management skill (adequate vs. inadequate #) | 2.95 | 1.08, 8.11 | 0.036 * |
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Rakpaitoon, S.; Thanapop, S.; Thanapop, C. Correctional Officers’ Health Literacy and Practices for Pulmonary Tuberculosis Prevention in Prison. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19, 11297. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191811297
Rakpaitoon S, Thanapop S, Thanapop C. Correctional Officers’ Health Literacy and Practices for Pulmonary Tuberculosis Prevention in Prison. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2022; 19(18):11297. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191811297
Chicago/Turabian StyleRakpaitoon, Suwida, Sasithorn Thanapop, and Chamnong Thanapop. 2022. "Correctional Officers’ Health Literacy and Practices for Pulmonary Tuberculosis Prevention in Prison" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 18: 11297. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191811297