Abstract
The purpose of this study is to develop health education lessons in order to foster health information literacy among junior high school students, and to evaluate the long-term effectiveness of these lessons on them. Students who were enrolled at a junior high school attached to a national university received a lesson about health information in the first semester of 1st grade and another lesson in the second semester of 2nd grade. In both lessons, a health information assessment sheet developed by the authors was administered. The effectiveness of the lessons was assessed by a critical thinking ability scale on health information before and after each lesson. Though the average of their scale scores increased after the 1st lesson, the average score fell before the 2nd lesson. The average score after the 2nd lesson increased again, and it was the highest during the period. The follow-up lesson was effective for promoting and maintaining students’ health information literacy even if the interval between two lessons was over one year.
