Investigating the Relationship between Health Literacy and health-promoting lifestyle in Youth

Introduction: Adopting a lifestyle that promotes health and achieves optimal and efficient health literacy are the determining sources for maintaining and promoting health and disease prevention. Due to the fact that a large part of the country's population is made up of young people and students, and due to the importance of young people's health in promoting public health, this study examines the relationship between health literacy and health-promoting lifestyle in young people. Methods: With the correlation method in research, Students' health-promoting lifestyles based on health literacy have been studied. The statistical population in the present study was 364 students in the academic year 1397-1398, which was randomly selected 364 people and to Walker et al.'s (1987) health-promoting lifestyle questionnaires, as well as Montazeri et al.'s (2013) literacy assessment, were answered. Then, the data were analyzed using multiple statistical tests. Note: The findings show that there is a significant relationship between health literacy and health-promoting lifestyle among young people. Conclusion: Based on the obtained statistical findings, it can be concluded that paying attention to the lifestyle that promotes students' health will be affected by the health literacy factor and can increase health and disease prevention and promote a healthy lifestyle. It should lead to the desired quality of life. Therefore, the country's planners should pay more attention to these variables in order to increase the positive practical measures.