Muhammad Asif Naveed|Rozeen Shaukat
Health literacy predicts Covid?19 awareness and protective behaviours of university students
University of Sargodha|University of Management and Technology
health literacy expected help individuals deal required infection control knowledge cope covid19 pandemicthis study examined impact health literacy covid19 awareness protective behaviours university students pakistanan online questionnaire used collect data students three universities punjab approved questionnaire contained 12 statements related hl 21 items towards covid19 awareness 11 statements related protective behaviours along demographic data data analysis used pearson correlation simple linear regressionhealth literacy university students positively predicted covid19 awareness protective behaviours indicating students high health literacy likely aware covid19 adopt health protective behaviours gender ruralurban differencesthe results demonstrated urgent need planning needsbased health literacy programme focusing specifically covid19 literacy pakistan research might help policymakers ngos health librarians devise suitable programme