Digital Media Use and Health Literacy Levels of Women in Turkey

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dc.contributor.authorDemir, Rukiye
dc.contributor.authorOdabas, Resmiye Kaya
dc.contributor.authorTaspinar, Ayten
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-27T21:13:28Z
dc.date.available2025-01-27T21:13:28Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.departmentÇanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractObtaining information about women's use of digital media, their behavior in acquiring health information in the digital environment and their level of health literacy will fill an important gap in the literature. This research was conducted to examine the digital media use and health literacy levels of women in Turkey. The population of the research was the female population between the ages of 20-60 in Turkey in 2020, and the sample consisted of 404 women in this age range. The data of this analytical-cross-sectional study were collected online with the Personal Information Form and the Turkish Health Literacy Scale-32. It was determined that 83.9% of the women participating in the study used digital media and 82.9% of them obtained health information in the digital environment. In the categorical score distribution of the scale, it was determined that the health literacy level of 48.8% of women was insufficient, 26.2% problematic/limited, 19.8% sufficient and 5.2% excellent. A significant relationship was determined between women's health literacy level and age, marital status, education level, employment status, perception of income level, place of residence, use of digital media and duration of use (p < .05). We concluded that majority of women in Turkey use digital media, obtain health information in the digital environment and have low health literacy levels.
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/19371918.2024.2322586
dc.identifier.endpage209
dc.identifier.issn1937-1918
dc.identifier.issn1937-190X
dc.identifier.issue2
dc.identifier.pmid38409821
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85186563259
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ2
dc.identifier.startpage199
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/19371918.2024.2322586
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12428/28431
dc.identifier.volume39
dc.identifier.wosWOS:001174004400001
dc.identifier.wosqualityN/A
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.indekslendigikaynakPubMed
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherRoutledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd
dc.relation.ispartofSocial Work in Public Health
dc.relation.publicationcategoryinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.snmzKA_WoS_20250125
dc.subjectDigital environment
dc.subjectdigital media
dc.subjectwoman
dc.subjecthealth literacy
dc.subjecthealth information
dc.titleDigital Media Use and Health Literacy Levels of Women in Turkey
dc.typeArticle

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