Özdemir, Mehmet KorayPehlivan, ErkanÖzdemir, Erkan2024-08-042024-08-0420222147-0634https://doi.org/10.5455/medscience.2021.12.389https://search.trdizin.gov.tr/yayin/detay/1131261https://hdl.handle.net/11616/89673This 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.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessArticle1131118112410.5455/medscience.2021.12.3891131261