The Relationship Between Health Product Literacy Among Grocery Store Operators Toward Unsafe Drug Selling: A Case Study of Don Kloi Sub-district, Phibun Ruk District, Udon Thani Province

Abstract

This cross-sectional analytical study was aimed to 1) evaluate the health product literacy among grocery store operators, 2) explore factors associated with health product literacy among grocery store operators, and 3) explore the relationship between the health product literacy score and score of grocery store quality. The sample was 60 grocery store operators in the Don Kloi community. The statistics were percentage, mean, and standard deviation. The relationship analysis utilized the T-test, One-way ANOVA, and Pearson correlation with a significance level of 0.05. The result revealed that health product literacy among grocery store operators, the aspects that have a moderate to a high level such as understanding, behavior modification, information accessibility, inquiry interaction, and word of mouth. The aspect that has literacy at a low level is decision-making. The survey on selling drugs in grocery stores found that 46.7 percent of the stores do not sell the drug, 30.0 percent sell home medicine, and 23.3 percent sell an unsafe drug. 76.7 percent of the stores get a quality score of 8 scores. Factors that have a relationship with health product literacy among grocery store operators with statistical significance at a 95% confidence interval were the demand of customers, Sub-district health promoting hospital located far away, inconvenience traveling, not having knowledge or not being a professional, afraid of illegal, having educational materials about medicines sold in grocery stores, having an application for searching an information, using and access to the online media, awareness of news through the media of posters, get the medicine from a pharmacy, and has received inspection from officials within the past one year. The overview correlation between a score of health product literacy and a score of grocery store quality was inversely related at a low level with no statistical significance (r=0.0721, p=0.584).