Investigation on the Status of Middle School Students' Health Information Literacy and COVID-19 Infection after the Release of COVID-19

Abstract

Through understanding the current situation of middle school students' health information literacy, explore the relationship between middle school students' health information literacy and COVID-19 infection, and provide information for epidemic response and epidemic reflection. [Methods/Process] On the basis of convenient sampling, a cluster questionnaire survey was conducted among 1268 middle school students in a town level middle school in Henan Province. Regression analysis was used to study the relationship between middle school students' health information literacy and COVID-19 infection. [Results/Conclusion] The reporting rates of middle school students who were not "positive", the first "positive", the second "positive", and those who had symptoms but did not undergo COVID-19 nucleic acid monitoring were 32.93% (413), 55.58% (697), 1.99% (25), and 9.49% (119), respectively. After adjusting the factors of grade, whether there are basic diseases, monthly income, parents' educational level, average accumulated daily sleep (including noon nap) time (hours) and daily exercise (including walking) time (hours) after the full liberalization of the COVID-19, it can be concluded that compared with high-level health information literacy, low-level health information literacy is not "positive" (OR=1.676,95% CI=1.038-2.705, and first "positive" symptoms (OR=2.147, 95% CI=1.357-3.399); while medium level of health information literacy had a higher relative risk for "first positive" symptoms (OR= 1.994,95%CI=1.113-3.572). Middle school students' health information literacy is related to COVID-19. Middle school students need to improve their personal health information literacy to achieve health promotion and promote the construction of a healthy power.