Health profile asset and health literacy in elementary school age children
Nunung Siti Sukaesih, Popi Sopiah, Sri Wulan Lindasari, Emi Lindayanti, Hikmat Pramajati, Ahmad Purnama H

Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia

Abstract

ABSTRACT
Background. The biggest health problems in school-aged children are accidents, violent behaviour, mental health, drug abuse and smoking, which are closely related to their health behaviour. This is what causes this age to receive priority in the 2016-2030 SDGs, considering that health status at this age is a reflection of health status in adulthood. Efforts to improve good health behaviour are through health literacy. Health literacy is a cognitive and social skill that influences a person^s motivation and ability to gain access to, understand and use information to promote and maintain good health.
Aims. The purpose of this study was to obtain an overview of health literacy in elementary school-age children
Method. This research is a cross-sectional study using several research instruments, namely FAS, RSES, HBSC, HLS-EU, and NVS which are self-assessments by research subjects, as well as BMI by measuring height and weight as measured directly by researchers. The number of samples in this study was 431 6th-grade students in Sumedang district using a cluster sampling technique. The cross-sectional analysis in this study used the chi-square statistical test.
Result. The research results show that there are variations in the value obtained from each of the sub-categories measured. The family^s socio-economic situation is 48.03% in the low category. The self-esteem category of 76.10% is medium. The nutritional status of participants as measured by Body Mass Index (BMI) was 65.20% underweight. In the physical activity sub-variable, 56.84% of participants carried out physical activity less than 2 hours per week while carrying out their role as students for most of them more than 2 hours per week. The sleeping habits of the majority of participants (48.72%) slept quite late, namely more than 00.00 and the majority of participants (80.28%) woke up at a maximum of 07.00. Only a small proportion (12.99%) of participants smoked. More than half of the data obtained for the health literacy subvariable with the HLS-EU instrument (54.06%) was in the problematic category and most of the measurement using NVS (70.53%) was in the limitation category.

Keywords: health literacy, health asset profile, elementary school, adolescent, school-age

Topic: Health promotion and education