Much attention is paid to the role of the teacher and parents and their mutual cooperation in developing children’s health care competence and children’s health literacy (Pranevičienė, Vasiliauskienė, 2017). Health literacy is understood as the ability to search for, understand the information about health transmitted through various information channels, to be able to critically evaluate it, to use it in everyday life in the fields of health care, disease prevention and health promotion (domains) and to improve quality of life (Sørensen et al., 2015). The results of different research (Jourdan et al., 2017) show that educators lack knowledge on how to develop children’s health care competence, they face parents’ reluctance to communicate, poor communication, failures in health care competence are due to the socio-economic situation of families. There are no specific studies reflecting the characteristics of preschool children’s health competence development. D. Jourdan (2017) et al. the results of the study showed that parents, family social status and living conditions have a very significant impact on children’s health literacy. According to the European Health Literacy Survey (HLS-ES), around 50% of The health literacy of the European population is inadequate (Sukys et al., 2017). Therefore, the role of pre-school educators and parents and their mutual cooperation in developing children’s health competence and children’s health literacy are particularly important in the context of health literacy. The aim of the study is to determine the health literacy of preschool educators and parents by levels and their attitudes towards the development of health competence.
Project funding:
Project is funded by EU Structural Funds according to the 2014–2020 Operational Programme for the European Union Funds’ Investments priority “Development of scientific competence of researchers, other researchers, students through practical scientific activities” under Measure No. 09.3.3-LMT-K-712.
Period of project implementation: 2021-09-01 - 2022-03-31
Project coordinator: Kaunas University of Technology
