Burkay Yakar|Mehtap Gömleksiz|Edibe Pi?ri?nçci?
Health Literacy Levels and Affecting Factors of Patients Who Applied to A University Hospital Polyclinic
F?rat University|F?rat University|F?rat University
aim known increasing health literacy increase peoples quality life enable benefit health services effectively contribute reducing health care costs inadequate health literacy reported lead insufficient health information high risk ill health low level understanding treatment methods increase health care costs today increasing number chronic diseases increasing elderly population increasing budget allocated health services also increased importance health literacy levels context aimed investigate health literacy levels factors affecting country methods crosssectional study conducted voluntary patients applied family medicine outpatient clinic university study sociodemographic questionnaire form turkish health literacy scale used data collection chisquare test used statistical analysis p results 225 volunteers included study 621 women mean score health literacy scale 255102 506 participants inadequate 251 problematic health literacy level level health literacy found significantly lower women low education level married children vision problems conclusion data obtained study showed health literacy levels low need develop policies increase levels