Health Literacy and Measurment

Aslantekin, Filiz; Yumrutaş, Mehmet

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“…The concept ''health literacy'' was first used by Simond in 1974 in an article called "Health Education as Social Policy". In the article, which discusses health education as a policy issue affecting the health system, setting a minimum standard for health literacy at all school levels was mentioned (Baker, 2006).The importance of the relationship between health literacy levels and health outcomes was emphasized for the first time in the World Health Organization reports in 1990 (Aslantekin and Yumrutas, 2014).There are several approaches to the behavioural responses of society to the pandemic: "The Protection Motivation Theory (PMT), Health Belief Model (HBM), Extended Parallel Process Model (EPPM), Precaution Adoption Process Model (PAPM)", and Transteorik Model (TM).The basic idea underlying these approaches is that people react to a threat by taking an action. Threat assessment is related to risk perception (Norman et al 2005;Champion and Skinner, 2008;Ozkan et al 2020).The cultural factors and the health system affect the level of health literacy in the education system and society in which individuals are involved.…”

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Covid 19 Pandemi Döneminde Öğrencilerin Sağlık Okuryazarlığı Düzeylerinin Belirlenmesi

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2023

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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.

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Covid 19 Pandemi Döneminde Öğrencilerin Sağlık Okuryazarlığı Düzeylerinin Belirlenmesi

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2023

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“…It is one of the warnings made by experts that health services should not be unnecessarily occupied, especially during the pandemic period. (Aslantekin & Yumrutaş, 2014;Eicher, Wieser & Bruegger, 2009;Howard, Gazmararian & Parker, 2005;Paakkari & Okan, 2020;Yılmaz & Tiraki, 2016). For example, in the study conducted by Berkman (2011), it was found that low health literacy increased the rate of inpatient treatment in hospitals, caused more occupation of emergency services, and caused the messages conveyed about health to be misunderstood.…”

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The Mediating Role of E-Health Literacy in the Relationship Between Coronavirus Awareness and Hope in the Covid-19

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2021

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This research aims to determine the mediating role of e-health literacy levels on the relationship between awareness of coronavirus precautions for Covid-19 and dispositional hope during the Covid-19 era. The current research is based on sequential explanatory design. The quantitative data in this research were collected online Google form, and the qualitative data were collected using the online interview technique. Participants from whom qualitative data were obtained were determined using the analog sampling method, one of the criterion sampling method. Participants from whom the quantitative data of the study were obtained were determined using the snowball sampling method, one of the purposeful sampling methods. As a result of testing the structural equation model, it has been determined that e-health literacy has a full mediating role between awareness of koronavirus and dispositional hope. In addition, in the study, it was observed that people who had Covid-19 increased their awareness of Covid-19 before and after the disease. It has been determined that people pay more attention to the precautions that should be taken for the transmission of the disease, especially after the disease. As a result, it can be said that the necessity of raising the awareness of individuals and giving priority to increasing the level of e-health literacy has emerged.

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“…Low health literacy is an important public health problem that affects individuals' overall health and increases disease-related problems. Inadequate health literacy can cause many problems such as an increased number of hospitalizations, increased use of emergency care services, receiving less preventive health care, failure to use drugs accurately or regularly, insufficiency in managing chronic diseases, inability to understand health-related messages, and the waste of limited sources for health expenditure [5][6][7]. In addition to those problems, the literature reported that inadequate health literacy had undesirable health outcomes such as lower medication adherence, increased medication errors and irrational drug use [7,8,9].…”

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Individuals' health literacy level and their knowledge and practices with respect to rational drug use

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This descriptive study aimed to identify individuals' health literacy level and their knowledge and practices with respect to rational drug use. The study was conducted with 405 individuals aged 18 and above who applied to a hospital. Data were collected by using an introductory information form and the Adult Health Literacy Scale (AHLS). Data were analyzed by using the Mann-Whitney U test for comparing two groups and the Kruskal-Wallis H test for comparing the mean total scale scores of more than two groups. We found that participants' average age was 34.25 ± 14.8; 55.5% of them were female; 50.5% had university education or higher; 51% were married. Their mean AHLS score was 14.03 ± 4.32 over 23. Our study found that individuals that used non-prescribed drugs had a lower mean AHLS score (12.16 ± 4.00), and the individuals that read the drug prospectus (p = 0.000) and expiry date (p = 0.000) had higher mean AHLS scores. For those who changed the drug dose prescribed by a doctor (p = 0.001) and those who stopped medication when the disease symptoms were gone (p = 0.031), the mean AHLS scores were lower at a statistically significant level. We found that participants had a moderate level health literacy and there was a negatively significant relation between age and health literacy scores. The study results indicated that there was a significant relation between their knowledge and practices with respect to rational drug use and health literacy level. Our suggestion is to assess individuals' health literacy and to plan initiatives for increasing their awareness regarding rational drug use and health literacy.

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Health Literacy and Measurment

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Covid 19 Pandemi Döneminde Öğrencilerin Sağlık Okuryazarlığı Düzeylerinin Belirlenmesi

Covid 19 Pandemi Döneminde Öğrencilerin Sağlık Okuryazarlığı Düzeylerinin Belirlenmesi

The Mediating Role of E-Health Literacy in the Relationship Between Coronavirus Awareness and Hope in the Covid-19

Individuals' health literacy level and their knowledge and practices with respect to rational drug use

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