What is Body Literacy Measurement Scale

Although there is growing global interest in health awareness, and emergence of scales to measure health literacy, there is less effort in empirical research in ascertaining the level of body literacy of different groups of individuals in determining how much information and understanding individuals have about their bodies. The academia may be successful in enhancing cognitive and psychomotor skills of students, but how have these enhanced students' knowledge to issues concerning their bodies and health such as blood pressure, blood sugar, genotype, body mass index, feeding habit, etc., and the decisions/actions they make/take regarding these, and the implications of these to being embodied learners? This study sampled 120 participants to investigate the body literacy level of postgraduate and undergraduate students of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, their level of awareness to risk, and their challenges of being bodily literate through a self-developed questionnaire which translated into a 21-item body literacy measurement scale.