Levels of Wellness, Health Literacy and Health Promoting Behavior Related Factors among Industrial Workers

Abstract

Background/Objectives: The aim of this comparative descriptive study is to identify in the characteristic and health promoting behavior of employees who work for the workplace.
Method/Statistical Analysis: The subjects were 142industrial workers in D, K, U city. Questionnaires were used to measure wellness, levels of health literacy and health promoting behavior. The data were collected from April 15,2018 to May 15,2018. Regression analyses were carried out to study the relationship of wellness, health literacy and health promoting behavior with Industrial workers, data were analyzed t-test, ANOVA, Pearson Correlation Coefficient by SPSS win 21.0 program.
Findings: Among the participants in the study, 55% were in 40s and 56.3% were manufacturer worker. The mean score of Wellness was 2.86, Health literacy was 80.53, Health promoting behavior was 2.78. The ability to understand health information was 18 points in 3 areas and the average was 80.53 points when converted into 100points. The factors that have significant relationships with wellness were age, working hours, next health literacy were educational, manufacturer worker and subjective health status. Health promoting behavior factors were age, smoking, shift work, night work, working hours, subjective health status and subjective safety status. Factors affecting the health promoting behavior were support from wellness(? =.561, p<.001) and night work(?=.449, p=.002).The explanatory power of these variables was 40.9%.The major factor influencing health promoting behavior intention was wellness and night work.
Improvements/Applications: These results suggest that wellness improvement programs should be focused on developments to improve the quality of Health promoting behavior