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Exploring the Associations Between Health Literacy, Self-Control, and Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors

Servet Alp(BURDUR MEHMET AKİF ERSOY ÜNİVERSİTESİ, İKTİSADİ VE İDARİ BİLİMLER FAKÜLTESİ, SAĞLIK YÖNETİMİ BÖLÜMÜ)0000-0001-8156-2205
Yasemin Akbulut(ANKARA ÜNİVERSİTESİ)0000-0002-6261-8290
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2026-03-30
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Bringing awareness of self-control and health literacy to students with non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, respiratory tract disease, and cancer, for which patient participation is critical, can make significant contributions to the treatment process and costs.

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Objective & Hypothesis:More than half of the total number of deaths worldwide in 2008 were due to non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancer, and chronic respiratory diseases.
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⚙️Variables:Health Literacy · Healthy Lifestyle · Self-Control

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More than half of the total number of deaths worldwide in 2008 were due to non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancer, and chronic respiratory diseases. Furthermore, three-fifths of health expenditures are due to poor health literacy. The present research aimed to explore the relationships among health literacy, self-control, and healthy lifestyle behaviors, and to reveal the mediating and moderating roles of self-control in the relationship between health literacy and healthy lifestyle behaviors. While the target population consisted of undergraduate students at a state university (N = 2,645), the sample included 1,046 voluntarily selected students. Findings showed that health literacy skills increased self-control skills and healthy lifestyle behaviors. Self-control skills also increase healthy lifestyle behaviors. Additionally, increased health literacy skills increase awareness and self-control, and greater self-control in turn increases healthy lifestyle behaviors, in a domino effect. Healthy lifestyle behaviors may be improved thanks to advanced health literacy and self-control. Bringing awareness of self-control and health literacy to students with non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, respiratory tract disease, and cancer, for which patient participation is critical, can make significant contributions to the treatment process and costs.

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Alp, S., Akbulut, Y. (2026). Exploring the Associations Between Health Literacy, Self-Control, and Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors. Journal of Mehmet Akif Ersoy University Economics and Administrative Sciences Faculty, Volume: 13 Issue: 1. https://doi.org/10.30798/makuiibf.1784514

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