Sociological study of family role in health socialization (case study: Shiraz city)

Subject Areas : Journal of Iranian Social Development Studies

Touba Peiro ¹ (Ph.D. Student of Sociology, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran.)
Bagher Saroukhani ² (Professor of Sociology)
Alireza Kaldi ³ (Professor of Sociology)
Habibollah Zanjani ⁴ (Associate Professor of Demographics)

Received: 2017-12-15 Accepted : 2017-12-15 Published : 2017-08-23

Keywords: family, Health socialization, cultural capital, Health literacy, Educational style,

Abstract :

Health socialization allows individual to learn norms, values, skills, attitudes and patterns of thought and action in order to make optimal decision of health behaviors, all of which are essential for social life. Primary health socialization make people familiar with the primary practical and applied concepts of health and take care of oneself. The results of socialization of health behavior is health literacy skill. The aim of this research is sociological study of the role of the family in health socialization and uses sociological and medical approaches and theories, so it have tried to achieve scientific knowledge about it. From this perspective, after reviewing the conceptual space of the subject from the theory relating to the subject with respect to interdisciplinary nature of the subject, it has been used the theories of sociology, medical sociology and social psychology to explain the subject, and as well as the assumptions from which these theories have been obtained, attempted sociological study of the role of the family in health socialization. Required information and data were collected using the survey method and using a questionnaire technique on 608 heads of households in Shiraz city through a multistage cluster sampling with 0.05 error level and 0.95 percent confidence coefficient. The results obtained from data analysis and multivariate regression indicate that variables of family social awareness, cultural capital, health literacy, family sensitivity to health issues, access to communication means, parenting style and structure of family value influence on promoting health socialization, i.e. seven independent variables could explain 42 percent of health socialization variance.

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