RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE HEALTH AND MEDIA LITERACY - SAĞLIK VE MEDYA OKURYAZARLIK ARASINDAKİ İLİŞKİ

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Health literacy and media literacy are important indicators for development a region. Aim of the study was to determine the health and media literacy levels of people and the relationship between two types of literacy in Mut County, Mersin/Turkey. A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 275 people using a standard questionnaire. The questionnaire includes respondent’s socio-demographic background, media literacy level determination scale and SOYA-AB scale. It was found that general index score for health literacy was 35.99 in Mut province. It was determined that 10% of the participants were “inadequate”, 27 % of them were problematical and % 23 of the respondents was excellent in term of general health literacy. Total media literacy level of the participants was 3.89. A positive and medium level relationship was found between health literacy and media literacy levels. The participants had an average knowledge on the health and media literacy level in Mut province.