Relationship of Health Literacy and Lifestyle in Veterans and Non-Veterans Families

Aims: Health literacy is skills and abilities in the acquisition and access of medical and health information, understanding such information, processing and interpretation of the information, and decisionmaking and use of updated information. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between health literacy and lifestyle in the families of veterans and families of nonveterans and assess and compare their lifestyles. Instrument Methods: 1770 members of the families of veterans and nonveterans from five provinces in Iran were selected through a systematic sampling method to participate in a descriptive crosssectional study in 2019. Lifestyle Questionnaire and All Aspects of Health Literacy Scale were used to collect the necessary data. Pearson Correlation and ttest statistics were run using SPSS 24 for the analysis of the data. Findings: There was a positive and significant correlation between veterans #39; health literacy and the lifestyle of veterans and nonveterans families (veterans: r=0.330, p 0.001; nonveterans: r=0.321, p 0.001). There was no significant difference between the lifestyle mean scores for men and women in the two groups of veterans and nonveterans (p 0.05). Conclusion: There is a correlation between health literacy and the lifestyle in veterans and nonveterans families, while there is no difference between the lifestyles in the two groups.