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Influence of Immunology Knowledge on Healthcare and Healthy Lifestyle

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  • Noor Lide Abu Kassim
  • Afiqah Binti Saleh Huddin
  • Jamal Ibrahim Daoud
  • Mohammad Tariqur Rahman

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Completing a course in Immunology is expected to improve health care knowledge (HCK), which in turn is anticipated to influence a healthy lifestyle (HLS), controlled use of health care services (HCS) and an awareness of emerging health care concerns (HCC). This cross-sectional study was designed to determine whether these interrelationships are empirically supported. Participants involved in this study were government servants from two ministries in Malaysia (n = 356) and university students from a local university (n = 147). Participants were selected using the non-random purposive sampling method. Data were collected using a self-developed questionnaire, which had been validated in a pilot study involving similar subjects. The questionnaire items were analyzed using Rasch analysis, SPSS version 21 and AMOS version 22. Results have shown that participants who followed a course in Immunology (CoI) had a higher primary HCK (Mean = 0.69 logit, SD = 1.29 logits) compared with those who had not (Mean = -0.27logit, SD = 1.26 logits). Overall, there were significant correlations among the HLS, the awareness of emerging HCC, and the controlled use of HCS (p

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  • Noor Lide Abu Kassim & Afiqah Binti Saleh Huddin & Jamal Ibrahim Daoud & Mohammad Tariqur Rahman, 2016. "Influence of Immunology Knowledge on Healthcare and Healthy Lifestyle," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 11(7), pages 1-13, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0159767
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0159767
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