Mahrokh Imanian|Meimanat Hosseini|Tahereh Ashktorab|Nezhat Shakeri|Mahsa Matbouei
Relationship between health literacy and health promoting behaviors in patients with heart failure referred to clinics of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences
Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences|Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences|Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences|Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences|Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences|Iranshahr University
patients heart failure considered one important groups exposed danger low health literacy may affect healthpromotion behaviors quality life increase load healthrelated coststherefore present study aimed determine relationship health literacy healthpromoting behaviors patients heart failurewho referred heart clinics shahid beheshti university medical sciencesthis correlational study conducted 300 heart failure patients selected byrandom cluster sampling method proportional allocationdata collection tool demographic information questionnairehealth literacy measurement health promoting lifestyle profi le 2 hplp2data analysis performed using spss software version 19 though statistical tests includingindependent ttest pearson spearman correlation coeffi cient mann