Vol. 2025 No. 4 (2025)
Articles

Health Literacy &Nutrition in acne adolescents

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  • Lucas Evans,
  • Caleb Taylor
Lucas Evans
Centre for Longitudinal Studies UCL Social Research Institute20 Bedford WayLondonWC1H 0AL, United Kingdom
Caleb Taylor
Centre for Longitudinal Studies UCL Social Research Institute20 Bedford WayLondonWC1H 0AL, United Kingdom

Published 18-09-2025

Keywords

  • Adolescents,
  • Health Literacy,
  • Acne,
  • Nutrition

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How to Cite

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L. Evans and C. Taylor, “Health Literacy &Nutrition in acne adolescents”, The Young Thinker's Rev., vol. 2025, no. 4, pp. 19–23, Sep. 2025, doi: 10.62852/ytr/2025/178.

Abstract

Objective: To investigate the relationship between health literacy and nutritional cognition and behavior in adolescents with acne. Methods: A convenience sampling method was used to select 362 adolescents with acne as the research subjects. Health literacy and nutritional cognition and behavior were evaluated using a health literacy scale and a nutritional cognition and behavior questionnaire, and the results were analyzed. Results: The health literacy score of adolescents with acne was (72.8±9.6) points, and the total score of nutritional cognition and behavior was (38.6±7.2) points. There was a significant positive correlation overall(P<0.01). Multiple linear regression analysis showed that the three dimensions of health literacy (health literacy knowledge and concepts, healthy lifestyle and behaviors, and health skills) could jointly predict 55.6%of the variance in nutritional cognition and behavior. Conclusion: The level of health literacy in adolescents with acne is related to nutritional cognition and behavior and can effectively predict their nutritional cognition and behavior.

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