Examination of health literacy and healthy life awareness levels of university students

Abstract

This study was organized to aim to define the university students’ healthier level of life at the sharing basement of health literacy that balanced the workload of partners/stakeholders by influencing the relations between the patients and physicians/doctors positively to ensure to be more successful in/during the diagnosis and treatment services carried out on health area in the last years. In the first chapter of this study, some operational and conceptual information were given and studied related to literature and some research. In the second chapter, the importance, necessity of this study, research problem, sub-problems, data collecting instrument/tool, the evaluating form of data, research World and research sample were defined. In the last chapter of the study, the data were analyzed by using correct/suitable statistical methods, evaluated and answered the problem and sub-problem questions by comparing, and then some suggestions were presented and discussed. As a result of this study, it may be said that the patients and their close relatives have a high level of health literacy and awareness and a high level of satisfaction with the health services, which affects the process positively depending on satisfaction level and ensures economical and time savings/advantages. At the same time, it was understood that there were very important personal and social problems. In the study, the health literacy levels of the participants were found to be “Moderate”. In addition, it was determined that health literacy differed according to gender, age, marital status and number of siblings variables in the study; it was also observed that health literacy did not differ according to educational status, income level and family type variables. Keywords: Health literacy, awareness, healthy living, preventive health services, orthopedical accidents.