Journal of Health Literacy
Volume:2 Issue: 4, 2018

Pregnancy is one of the most critical stages in women's lives which is associated with physical, psychological, and often reduced the quality of life. Health literacy is an important element in the ability of a woman to engage in health promotion and prevention activities for herself and her children. This study aimed to determine the relationship of health literacy to the quality of life and some of the demographic factors.
This cross-sectional study was conducted on 400 pregnant women who were referred to health centers of Gonabad city in 2016 who were selected by census method. Data were collected using demographic questionnaires, health literacy and quality of life, and analyzed by ANOVA, Chi-square, Pearson correlation and multiple regression.
The mean age of pregnant women was 27.21±5.4. Total score of health literacy and their quality of life were 103.522±14.507 and 72.611±11.474 respectively. There was a positive and significant relationship between health literacy and quality of life. Health literacy as a predictor of the two dimensions of physical and mental health was the quality of life. Health literacy was significantly correlated with education but did not correlate with other demographic variables. Also, quality of life had a significant relationship with education level and the number of pregnancies.
The findings revealed that the level of health literacy and its dimensions is essential to have a better quality so staff and health authorities should have paid attention to the relationship between these two components.

comparing youth with another age show that they are more tendency to the Internet and social networking. Because that, expanding the use of the media in health education and health promotion is essential and undeniable. This study aimed to compare health literacy in youth member of the Telegram With other youth.
In this cross-sectional and descriptive study, 400 subjects aged 18-29 years old were selected using multistage sampling in Tabriz. Relevant information was obtained using HELIA questionnaire. Data were analyzed using SPSS and appropriate tests.
22.2% (n=88) of the participants had inadequate health literacy, 23.2 % (n=93) not so inadequate health literacy, 42.5 % (n=170) adequate health literacy and 12.2 (n = 49) had higher health literacy. There was no significant between health literacy and scales of assessment, decision-making, and understanding in youth member of the Telegram With other youth. But in sub items of accessibility and reading skills, there is a significant difference between two groups (p Due to low health literacy and the importance of youth role in society, it is necessary educational programs aimed at improving their health literacy skills, health information management in virtual networks¡ designed and implemented.

Health promoting behaviors and life style at the young age is regarded as very important issues. The purpose of the present study is to investigate the relationship between social support and health literacy whit health promoting behaviors among female students in Islamic Azad University, in Kazerun, Iran.
In this descriptive-analytic study, 200 female Azad University students were selected as the sample using random cluster sampling. The required data were collected using the Sarason's Social Support Questionnaire, Health Literacy Questionnaire devised by Montazeri et al., and Walker's Promoting Behaviors Questionnaire. The data were analyzed using SPSS software (version 22), Pearson correlation coefficient and regression analysis.
Health promoting behaviors and health literacy scores in students were 74.32 and 76.68, respectively. The average for individuals in the students’ social support network was 3.8 ± 1.9 and the mean score of their satisfaction from their own social network was 4.9 ± 1.5. The results obtained from regression analysis showed that health literacy comprised 22.2% of health promoting behaviors while social support demonstrated 17.8% of these behaviors.
Though health literacy and health promoting behaviors have been in a desirable condition for students, it seems necessary to carry out health education programs on the basis of the areas of health promoting behaviors and health literacy components as well as assisting students to improve social networking and to moderate their expectations with respect to this network.

The purpose of this paper is studying the relation between health literacy, as an independent variable, and self-care, as a dependent variable among women; because women health is basis of health of family and community and it poses a special importance in securing and health continuity
Sample populations in this study were women aged between 17 and 69 years, visited district 2 Municipality Cultural Centers in 1395 and the health literacy questionnaire (HELIA) has been distributed haphazardly between 242 ones of these visitors. The simple cluster sampling was carried out in these cultural centers thus, the areas were divided into regions, regions into neighborhood and finally cultural centers were chosen by chance. The sample populations volume was chosen based on Cochran formula.
The highest age prevalence refers to 20 and 29 years old person and age average was 36 years old. Based on Pearson realize, relation intensity between two variables is strong and Positive correlation values demonstrate a direct relationship between them which means the higher level of "decision making and behavior" dimension of health literacy cause their higher self-care, vice versa the lower level of their "decision making and behavior" dimension of health literacy cause the worse their self-care .
Regarding the importance of self-care education in reducing burden of disease and sequent disability, we should improve self-care by planning on promoting the health literacy in target groups. This issue can be achieved with training health dimension through an integrated plan for the provision of educational content and tools and presenting them through communication channels such as mass media, training sessions, cultural-artistic and educational centers.

disability of children has multiple negative impacts on psychological and social on mothers. The study of health literacy in mothers with children with special needs and the impact of the health literacy on quality of life is necessary. The aim of this study was to compare the health literacy and quality of life in three groups of mothers including; Cerebral palsy, Autism, and intellectual impairments.
The research method of this study was ex-post design. The statistical society of present study was all of the mothers with special needs care referred to rehabilitation centers in the west region of Tehran city by 2016. The samples of research were dividing into three groups (each group was 40 mothers). All of the participants were 120 mothers selecting by simple sampling method. For gathering data using the Health Literacy Questionnaire for Adults (HELIA) and World Health Organization Questionnaire of Quality of Life (WHOQOL). The data were analyzed by ANOVA and with SPSS software version 21.
The results indicated that three groups of mothers had a significant difference in health literacy and sub-scales of the questionnaire (p0/05).
The findings revealed that the study of health literacy was the impact of quality of life of mothers. Therefore, the educational and awareness programs seem to be urgent for improving the health literacy and quality of life in three groups of mothers and considering by health professionals.

The relation of low health literacy with negative health consequences such as less adopting of preventive behaviors, premature death and weaker state of health has been proven. Due to the increase of using smoking among students, this study was performed with the purpose of determining and comparing health literacy among smoker and non-smoker students.
This research is the cross-sectional study among dormitory students of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in Tehran was performed. The sample size of 360 people has been included by single-stage random cluster sampling. The data collection tools were demographic information and health literacy questionnaire (HELIA). Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and t-test in SPSS (ver.16).
59.1% (n=201) were studied non-smoker students, 17.1% (n=58) had experienced smoking and 23.8% (n=81) were current smokers. The mean and standard deviation of health literacy score were 70.52±14.12 from 100. The dimensions of understanding and access to the highest mean score, and then the decision making and application of health information had the lowest mean score. There was a significant difference between the mean of health literacy in two groups of smoker and non-smoker students. Also, there was a significant difference between the mean scores of the dimensions of understanding, decision making and application of health information and access in two groups of smoker and non-smoker students (P In order to design smoking prevention interventions in students, special attention should be paid to health literacy and its dimensions in this field.

Health literacy is one of the major determinants of health and is one of the important factors in chronic diseases such as MS. The aim of this study was to evaluate the Health Literacy Association with health behaviors and health care utilization.
This study was a cross-sectional study in which 100 patients with multiple sclerosis diseases selected by the convenience sampling in Qazvin hospital. Respondents completed the Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine, revised (REALM-R) and the Newest Vital Sign (NVS) instrument. For statistical analysis, we used logistic and ordinal regression and Kruskal-Wallis and Mann-Whitney tests.
Mean age of the subjects was 33/43±8/53 years. On the NVS, 63% of respondents had a high likelihood of inadequate literacy and 26% had borderline health literacy and 11% had adequate health literacy. On the Realm-r, 7% had inadequate literacy and 93% had adequate health literacy, Using logistic regression the frequency of alcohol consumption and using cigarette (p Based on the results of the current study it is necessary to pay more attention to the health literacy level of the affected people and promote it in health programs and health promotion.