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chronically ill outpatient cases use variety complementary alternative medicines due diseases therapeutic complications chronic condition quality life health literacy affect use complementary medicine among chronically ill outpatient cases health literacy helps patients make fully informed decisions use complementary alternative medicine study aimed investigate relationship complementary alternative medicine health literacy chronically ill outpatient cases crosssectional analyticaldescriptive study conducted 400 chronically ill outpatient cases referred medical centers affiliated kerman university medical sciences convenience sampling used research tools included complementary alternative medicine questionnaire health literacy questionnaire spss25 used analyze data mean use complementary alternative medicine recent year 1675 789 lower midpoint questionnaire 84 prayer medicinal plants vitamin supplements music therapy art therapy mostly used complementary alternative medicine methods common reasons using complementary medicine reduce physical complications improve anxiety stress mean satisfaction use complementary alternative medicine 3496 669 mean health literacy score 6713 1990 decisionmaking use health information highest mean score among dimensions health literacy whereas reading skills received lowest mean score found significant direct relationship use complementary alternative medicine health literacy dimensions study results showed health literacy predicted use complementary alternative medicine health education promotion programs may useful improvement health literacy community