Journal of Health Literacy
Volume:4 Issue: 3, 2019

People's ability to acquire, analyze, and understand basic health information and services needed to make decisions about health and health issues is called health literacy. The purpose of this study was to investigate the health literacy of addicts referring to addiction treatment centers in Qom city and its relationship with demographic variables, 2019.

This analytical cross-sectional study was performed on 304 subjects. Samples were obtained through regular random sampling from clients of several addiction treatment centers in Qom city, 2019. Data were collected using Health Literacy for Iranian Adults (HELIA) questionnaire. The data were analyzed using ANOVA, T test, and Pearson and P <0.05 was considered.

The results showed that about 27.3% of subjects had inadequate, 26.6% borderline, 23.7% adequate and 3.6% excellent health literacy. The mean age of the samples was 42.51±11.17 years. 33.9% used health network and health related programs. There was a significant relationship between health literacy a4nd source for Obtaining Health Information (p = 0.015). In this study, there was a significant relationship between health literacy and its dimensions with education (p = 0.000) and job (p = 0.04). Results of correlation test showed that health literacy had a significant negative relationship with age (r = -289 = p = 0.000).

Since health literacy can be effective in promoting preventive behaviors and due to the low level of health of the samples studied in this study, more attention should be paid to this issue. Also, because the target population of addicts is low health literacy, there is a lack of awareness about the dangers of addiction, which leads to greater involvement in addiction and its consequences. . By carefully planning and designing effective training programs in this field can be an effective step in improving the health literacy of addicts. The poor use of samples from health-related television programs requires authorities to cultivate health literacy through the use of accessible media, virtual networks, and training classes in addiction treatment centers.

Adherence to self-care behaviors among hypertensive patients is a major factor in hypertension management. Hence, this study aimed to determine the self-care behaviors among patients with hypertension in Isfahan.

  A cross-sectional study, with 210 hypertensive patients having referred to health centers in Isfahan 2016 Multistage random sampling was applied. The H-SCALE questionnaire including data on adherence to medication, low salt diet, smoking, physical activity and weight management was completed by interview. The data were analyzed using the SPSS software, version 20. Descriptive and analytical statistics as well as the independent t-test and Chi-Square were applied. The significance level was set at 0.05.

 The mean age of the subjects was 57.3±8.9. More than 90% of male and more than 80% of female reported being adherent to hypertension medication. Low-salt diet adherence in male was more than female 15.4% and 6% respectively. But female were following physical activity (22.8%) more than male (11.5%). The results showed that there was a significant difference between men and women in adherence to medication (p=0.034), no smoking (p=0.001) and and physical activity (p=0.004) .

Although more than 90% of our participants adhered medication description or weight managements for self- care, but the rate of low salt diet adherence and physical activity still needs improvement. It seems that health educators should be prepared specific protocol to improve the self- care behaviors.

Sexual education is one of the most important issues in the field and affects the formation of human personality and his/her thoughts, emotions and behaviors. This study was conducted to review existing studies with the aim of "determining the need of family-based sexual education ".

This study was conducted based on the PRISMA systematic review protocol. The data were obtained from international scientific electronic resources including the World Health Organization, PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, Google Scholar and Persian databases as well as manual search using appropriate keywords. The criteria for entering this sample were articles published in English and Persian from the beginning of 1990 to June 2018.

of the 294 articles reviewed, a total of 17 articles were included in the study. The results showed that the effective communication of parents with their children creates a proper attitude towards the gender issue as well as proper behaviors in this regard. These include improving adolescent reproductive health, raising awareness of puberty and menstruation, pregnancy and HIV / AIDS, emergency contraception and condom methods, delayed onset of sexual activity, less sexual communication and unwanted pregnancy prevention. The next point in reviewing these texts was the low level of communication between parents and boys in sexual matters.

According to the results, the necessity of family-centered education is evident and this method can prevent the commission of many sexually inappropriate behavior. The important challenge in this regard is the creation of effective communication skills in the family and the education and health organs should set this agenda as a priority. Another important issue is the empowering of parents to teach their children about sexual issues.

Quality of life is a multidimensional concept that is influenced by many important factors such as physical and mental health. Health literacy is also one of the factors that has a significant impact on quality of life. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between nurses' quality of life and health literacy in the largest heart center of Northwest Iran in 2018.

The present study is an analytical, cross-sectional study that was performed on 217 nurses working in the largest heart center of Northwest in Tabriz through random sampling. Study data were collected using the 36-item Quality of Life Questionnaire (SF-36) and the Adult Functional Health Literacy Standard Questionnaire (HELIA). Data analysis was performed using ANOVA, t-test, Pearson correlation coefficient, by SPSS software version 25.

The mean and standard deviation of nurses' quality of life was (59.17±7.6) and the majority of subjects 84(37.8%) had good quality of life. the mean and standard deviation of the overall health literacy was estimated to be 75.9 ± 13.3, indicating adequate health literacy among nurses. There was a significant relationship between different dimensions of quality of life with total health literacy score (P <0.001), but there was no significant relationship between understanding and quality of life’s dimensions.

Findings showed that increasing nurses' health literacy has positive effects on some aspects of their quality of life. Therefore, while communicating with nursing staff, nursing managers should pay close attention to their health and quality of life, and should try to improve their quality of life by developing educational programs and promoting health literacy.

Given the importance of the role of health literacy in promoting quality of life, as well as the role that physicians and health professionals play in promoting health behaviors and public awareness in terms of people's acceptance of information and trust, the study needs special attention; The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between health literacy and quality of life in health care workers in Famenin County.

This descriptive-analytic study was conducted on 275 Health care worker in Famenin County in 2018 using census method. The adults' health literacy questionnaire (HELIA) and quality of life questionnaire (SF-36) were used to collect data. Data were analyzed using SPSS24 software.

The results showed that 32.4 percent had not enough health literacy. Also, 64.1% of participants achieved the maximum quality-of-life score that indicated a relatively favorable situation. Quality of life was correlated with health literacy (r =0.252, P<0.01). By increasing the score of the assessment and application of health information, the average quality of life score increased by 0.82 and 1.10, respectively.

In general, the findings of this study showed a significant relationship between the level of health literacy and quality of life, which indicates the key role of health literacy in improving quality of life. Therefore, health literacy should be considered as a factor in promoting health behaviors and creating healthy lifestyles and ultimately improving the quality of life.

Health literacy and health promoting life style are one of the most important determinants of health and their benefit can increase health behaviors, improve access to health care and are essential for maintaining and controlling health. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between health literacy and health promoting life style among medical students of Hamadan.

This descriptive-analytical study was performed on 382 medical students of Hamadan University of Medical Sciences using multi-stage stratified random sampling. Data were collected using Iranian Adult Health Literacy Questionnaire (HELIA) and Health Promoting Behaviors (HPLP-ll). The data were analyzed by SPSS 21 software using descriptive statistics as well as chi-square, independent t-test and one-way ANOVA and Pearson correlation.

The mean score of students' health literacy was 126.13 (19.28). 67% (n = 260) of them had excellent and desirable health literacy and total score of health promoting behaviors was evaluated with 51.1% of achievable score at undesirable level. It was also found that health promoting behaviors with health literacy dimensions included: access (r = 0.404), reading (r = 0.324), understanding (r = 0.354), evaluation (r = 0.410). ) And decision making and use of health information (r = 0.552) had a significant positive correlation (P <0.01). Also, there was a positive and significant correlation between health promoting behaviors and all aspects of health literacy (P <0.01).

The findings of this study showed that students' health promotion life style increased with increasing health literacy. Therefore, designing and implementing educational interventions to empower students in health literacy is recommended.

The purpose of this study was to compare the relationship between coping styles and self-efficacy in women with breast cancer and normal women.

The present study was a descriptive-analytic study. In 2014, referring to the specialized radiotherapy and rehabilitation clinics of Reza (AS) and the control variables of 50 women with breast cancer and 50 healthy women, through available sampling In this study, demographic characteristics were used along with informed consent form, Lazarus and Falkman coping styles questionnaire, and Sherer and Maddox general self-efficacy questionnaire were used to collect data. Pearson correlation and Independent t-test were used to determine the hypotheses to determine the difference between the two groups. Data were analyzed using SPSS 16 software.

The results of the analysis showed that there is a significant difference between coping styles and its components and self-efficacy among patients with breast cancer and normal people. In women with breast cancer and normal women in problem-oriented style, with self-efficacy There is a meaningful and direct relationship between emotion-centered styles and self-efficacy (p <0.01).

Overall, the findings show that there is a significant difference between coping styles and self-efficacy in cancer patients and normal people, and higher scores in problem-oriented styles are associated with better self-efficacy and better self-efficacy leads to health promotion behaviors Gets