Covid 19 Pandemi Döneminde Öğrencilerin Sağlık Okuryazarlığı Düzeylerinin Belirlenmesi

Abstract

The Covid-19 Pandemic showed us that the nation-states being caught unprepared for the sudden outbreaks resulted in the management of the process with social restrictions. It has disrupted the health systems and socio-economic balance of societies during and after the pandemic and still has caused tribulations in returning to the old normals. For this reason, it has led to the need for individuals to attach importance to health literacy education, especially during their student years. Thus, this study aims to determine the health literacy levels of students during the Covid-19 Pandemic and prepare a method and a theoretical basis for raising awareness. As a result of the data analysis, the kurtosis and skewness values were calculated.In the study, the following items were used: The Turkish Health Literacy scale, which was developed by Okyay and Abacigil (2016) with the support of the Turkish Ministry of Health, the Independent T-test for intergroup and pairwise comparisons, the One Way ANOVA test for multiple comparisons, and the Tukey's Test for Post-Hoc Analysis. Accordingly, students can simply realize the stages of accessing, understanding, appraising, and applying information about health literacy. When we evaluate the health literacy levels of the students by their genders, female students have higher literacy than male students in terms of accessing, understanding, and appraising information in the health care and disease prevention and health promotion areas. Under the observations, there is a strong positive relationship between students' level of understanding and their level of appraising and applying the information in thedisease prevention and health promotion sub-dimension. According to the results obtained, the health literacy levels of the students strongly affect each other in terms of accessing, understanding, appraising, and applying the information in the sub-dimension of disease prevention and health promotion.