Health literacy levels of patients who applied to a district outpatient clinic in Malatya city center and related factors

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dc.contributor.authorÖzdemir, Mehmet Koray
dc.contributor.authorPehlivan, Erkan
dc.contributor.authorÖzdemir, Erkan
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-04T19:53:20Z
dc.date.available2024-08-04T19:53:20Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.departmentİnönü Üniversitesien_US
dc.description.abstractThis research was carried out to determine the health literacy levels and the factors affecting to the knowledge level of the patients of a district outpatient clinic at the city center of Malatya. It is a descriptive cross-sectional study where the data is obtained from a socio-demographic data set and Turkish Health Literacy Questionnaire -32 (THLQ-32). The data analysis was performed using SPSS 22.0 statistical software. The Kolmogorov-Smirnov normality test was used to determine whether the quanti tative data is normally distributed. With the observation of the data not showing a normal distribution Mann Whitney U and Kruskal Wallis variance analysis were used for the statistical analysis. Chi-squared test is used to determine whether there is a statistically significant difference within the qualitative data for a significance level of p<0.05. 49.9% of the patients were male and 50.1% were female. The mean age is 35.94±13.8 years. 24% of the patients had completed secondary school or below while 40.4% had completed higher education. The average index score of the patients according to THLQ-32 is 15.85±11.07. According to THLQ-32 health literacy categories 78.1% of the patients identified as “inadequate”, 14% as “limited-problematic”, 6.3% as “adequate” and 1.6% as “excellent”. We conclude that there is a significant correlation (p<0.05) between gender, marital status, age and education level with health literacy levels respectively. On the other hand there is no statistically significant correlation (p>0.05) among patients with chronic illnesses and their health literacy levels.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.5455/medscience.2021.12.389
dc.identifier.endpage1124en_US
dc.identifier.issn2147-0634
dc.identifier.issue3en_US
dc.identifier.startpage1118en_US
dc.identifier.trdizinid1131261en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.5455/medscience.2021.12.389
dc.identifier.urihttps://search.trdizin.gov.tr/yayin/detay/1131261
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11616/89673
dc.identifier.volume11en_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakTR-Dizinen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.relation.ispartofMedicine Scienceen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Ulusal Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.titleHealth literacy levels of patients who applied to a district outpatient clinic in Malatya city center and related factorsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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