Lifestyle disease prevention: Health literacy, health attitude and mHealth

2017 International Conference on Research and Innovation in Information Systems (ICRIIS) Pub Date : 2017-07-01 DOI:10.1109/ICRIIS.2017.8002462

Moi Wei Yun, N. L. Abdullah, R. Idrus, Pantea Keikhosrokiani

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Lifestyle disease has been a sprawling issue not only in Malaysia, but worldwide. In the literature, low health literacy and negative health attitude are the two main causal factors for high number of lifestyle disease. Meanwhile, mobile health or better known as mHealth is found to enhance health literacy and encourage positive health attitude. This study aims to find the relationship between health literacy, health attitude and lifestyle disease for residence in Malaysia. A total of 150 responses have been collected using a questionnaire posted via social media platforms. The findings revealed that there is a significant relationship between health literacy and lifestyle disease as well as health attitude and lifestyle disease. Majority of the respondents have been found to have low health literacy and negative health attitude too. A mHealth application with features of disease information, symptoms checker, calorie counter, medication information and exercise can be proposed with hope to improve health literacy and attitude of Malaysia residence. The proposed features are based on responses solicited from the questionnaire.

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生活方式疾病预防:健康素养、健康态度和移动健康

生活方式疾病不仅在马来西亚，而且在全世界都是一个蔓延的问题。在文献中，低健康素养和消极的健康态度是导致大量生活方式疾病的两个主要原因。与此同时，移动医疗或更广为人知的mHealth被发现可以提高健康素养，鼓励积极的健康态度。本研究旨在探讨马来西亚居民健康素养、健康态度与生活方式疾病之间的关系。通过在社交媒体平台上发布的问卷调查，共收集了150份回复。结果显示，健康素养与生活方式疾病、健康态度与生活方式疾病之间存在显著的相关关系。调查还发现，大多数受访者的健康素养较低，健康态度消极。可以提出一个具有疾病信息、症状检查、卡路里计数器、药物信息和运动功能的移动健康应用程序，希望提高马来西亚居民的健康素养和态度。建议的功能是基于从问卷中征求的答复。

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