title: [Multivariate and multilevel model analysis on factors that influencing the literacy of health among high school students in Guangdong province].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To analyze the awareness on health among high school students and its influencing factors in Guangdong.
  
  
  METHODS
  Multi-stage sampling and questionnaire "2009 health awareness survey of the Chinese citizens" developed by our Department of Health, were used. Data were analyzed by multivariate multilevel model under MLwinN 2.19 software.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The mean scores on knowledge and ideas, behaviors and related skills among 1606 high school students of Guangdong province, were 69.08 ± 14.81, 60.05 ± 16.85 and 74.99 ± 21.17 respectively. Three items on health showed that they all related to each other and relations between grades (0.972, 0.715 and 0.855) were greater than the individuals (0.565, 0.426 and 0.438).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Factors as students from outside the Pearl River Delta region or from the rural areas, being male, at general secondary schools, at grade one, with poor academic performance and more pocket money etc., had lower levels on those related information of health.
authors.affiliation: School of Public Health, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Molecular Epidemiology, China. smalltomato@163.com
authors.forename: Xiao-hua
authors.initials: XH
authors.lastname: Ye
authors.forename: Ya
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Shu-dong
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Yan-hui
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: Yan-fen
authors.initials: YF
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002681:China; D005260:Female; D057220:Health Literacy; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D008297:Male; D055361:Multilevel Analysis; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D012574:Schools; D013334:Students; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires