1. Evaluation of the Relationship Between Nutrition Literacy and Health Literacy in Adults
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Hülya Kamarlı Altun, Gülen Suna, Nilgün Seremet Kürklü, Merve Şeyda Karaçil Ermumcu, Zeynep Ateş, Eylül Akçınar, and Havva Akın
- Abstract
Aim: This study aims to determine the relationship between nutrition literacy (NL) and health literacy (HL) of adults. Subjects and Method: This cross-sectional study included 450 individuals aged 18-65 years residing in Antalya. A questionnaire including socio-demographic characteristics, health status, nutritional habits, Turkish Health Literacy Scale-32, and the Evaluation Instrument of Nutrition Literacy on Adults was applied to the subjects by face-to-face interview technique and anthropometric measurements were taken. Results: The mean age of the participants was 34.3±13.14 years. While more than half of them had inadequate (14.2%) and problematic-limited HL (37.6%), 87.3% of them were found to have adequate NL. Mean NL scores of women were found to be significantly higher than men (27.9±2.76; 26.5±3.32, p
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- 2022