Identifying health literacy factors for hypertensive patients with Demetel and Content analysis

The present study is applied in terms of purpose and in terms of descriptive survey method and combination (qualitative-quantitative). The statistical population of the study includes knowledgeable or knowledgeable people in the field of medical sciences and educational management who were actually involved with the dimensions and subject of the research in the field of hypertension and health literacy. To determine the samples of this section and to determine this group of experts, purposive non-random sampling method was used, in which 23 people were considered as interviewees according to the saturation principle. In a small part, there is a statistical community of medical experts and experts who used non-random and purposeful sampling method and questionnaires were provided to 21 experts in this field. In the qualitative part of the research, the semi-structured interview method was used and in the quantitative part, the matrix questionnaire was used. In order to analyze the data collected in the qualitative section, the three-step method of open coding, axial coding and selective coding has been used. In a small part, the decision of pairwise comparisons has been used. Based on the findings of this study, it can be concluded that the existence of 4 factors of basic literacy with components of reading and writing and knowledge, cultural literacy with components of attitude, values ​​and norms, cognitive literacy with components of application, evaluation, understanding and access, And social literacy with components of communication and interaction can affect the health literacy of hypertensive patients.