Adolescents’ Health Literacy Level of Muscle Atrophy Due Physical, Medical and Exercise Factors

Abstract

Study Focus: This study aimed atevaluating adolescents’ health literacylevel of muscle atrophy due physical, exercise and medical factors with one hundred and twenty participants ( n=120 )of mean and standard age 16.5±3.5 ranged from 13-20 years sampled using the systematic random sampling method, with variablestestedatOne-sample t-Test of IBM-SPSS Version 23. Results: The Comparative analysis from the test showedsignificance difference in scoresfor all tested variables with pre-test and post-test t-scores of 08.531-&-26.202 in table 2 ; 13.712 -&- 49.239 in table 4, and 11.116-&-20.281 in table 6 @ * p<0.000 2-tailed significance level with test-value of 0.05 . Conclusion: There wasa significant difference between pre-test and post-test scores for all tested variables as evidenced also in their mean scores, percentages, frequencies and 95% confidence interval difference scores. Recommendation: It is recommended that, health literacyis taught in schoolsduring health and physical education classes.