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INTRODUCTION: HPSR aims to help societies address complex health issues and reach shared
goals. Recognising the increasing demand in HPSR locally, a stakeholder engagement was held
to gather insights on the successes, opportunities and challenges on HPSR capacity in
Malaysia.
METHODS: A virtual stakeholder engagement session, via Zoom was held on 27th May 2021.
A total of 38 participants from various backgrounds such as academia, researcher, health
managers, private practitioners and community leaders were involved. The Rose, Bud, Thorn
Framework were used to identify successes (rose), opportunities (bud), and challenges
(thorn) in strengthening HPSR capacity in Malaysia. Identified challenges were then further
categorised by their degree of effort and impact.
RESULTS: Among successes and opportunities of HPSR capacity in Malaysia identified were
increase in awareness of HPSR importance, demand for HPSR training, and availability of HPSR
training module and HPSR competency set. Nevertheless, some of the challenges identified
through this framework were lack of HPSR experts, inadequate funding for HPSR training,
inadequate training opportunities, and lack of institutional support in applying HPSR after
training.
DISCUSSION/CONCLUSION: The stakeholder engagement has successfully identified the
successes, opportunities and challenges in strengthening HPSR capacity in Malaysia using The
Rose, Bud, Thorn Framework. These findings identified will be used in developing a national
strategic plan with the objective of advancing the field of HPSR through further development
of research methods, and the skills and competencies of HPSR members. The strategies
include conducting HPSR awareness and skill building activities, and advocating HPSR capacity
building.

ID 107 THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HEALTH INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOR AND
HEALTH LITERACY AMONG TYPE 2 DIABETES PATIENTS: A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY IN
NEGERI SEMBILAN

Nadia Amirudin, Albeny Joslyn Panting, Rosnani Kassim, Siti Nurhanim Mohammed Aimanan, Nurul Nadhirah
Nasir, Khairul Amar Musa
Institute for Health Behavioural Research, National Institutes for Health, Ministry of Health Malaysia

INTRODUCTION: Understanding Health Information Seeking Behaviour (HISB) and Health
literacy among diabetes patients is crucial as knowledge and patient’s capability to
understand basic health information has significant role for them to have a better self-care.
METHODS: This cross-sectional study was applied using multistage random sampling
technique, which included 306 respondents who registered at selected government health
clinics in Negeri Sembilan. Patient needs to fill up validated Self-Administrated Questionnaire
(SAQ) with a minimal guidance by the research team. However, Health Literacy assessment
was conducted using HLS-M-Q18. This questionnaire is a condensed and adapted version of
the European Health Literacy Survey, HLS-EU-Q47.
RESULTS: Most of the respondents in Negeri Sembilan falls under passive category (not
active) in seeking diabetes information and had limited health literacy. The most important
sources of information are doctor (99.3%), followed by family members (79.4%) & pharmacist
(68.3%). Among the main reasons they need information are “to ensure that my diabetic
condition is not serious” (71.9%), “to find out what I could do on my own to deal with diabetes
& to plan how to deal with diabetes” (81.6%) and “to find the best diabetes treatment options”

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