Evaluation of health literacy and drug use attitudes and behaviors of patients admitting to dermatology clinic

Objective: In the present study, the purpose was to investigate the relationship between health literacy levels and drug use attitudes and behaviors of patients admitting to dermatology outpatient clinics.Method: A total of 295 volunteers admitting to Sivas Cumhuriyet University Dermatology Clinic between 1/03/2020 and 31/12/2020 were included in the study. Two forms were used to collect the data in the study. These were the Data Collection Form and the Health Literacy Scale.Results: The mean age of the participants was 33.0 ±16.36; and 62.0% of them were women. The mean score of the participants in Health Literacy Scale was 4.60±0.2; and it can be argued that the health literacy levels of the participants were high. The relations between health literacy and dermatological drug use attitudes and behaviors were evaluated with the Correlation Analysis; and a significant relation was detected between the two variables (p<0.05).Conclusions: Dermatology patients have high health literacy and their dermatological drug use attitudes and behaviors are at adequate levels.

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