ARTICLE INFO

Article Type

Descriptive & Survey Study

Authors

Khodabakhshi-koolaee   Anahita (1)
Falsafinejad   Mohammad Reza (2)
Mayeli Khezerloo   Zahra (3)
Mohamadi   Farima (4*)






(1) Psychology & Education Science Department, Human Science Faculty, Khatam University, Tehran, Iran
(2) Measurement Department, Psychology & Education Faculty, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran
(3) Counseling Department, Humanities & Social Sciences Faculty, Science & Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
(4*) Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Correspondence

Address: Social Determinants of Health Research Center, NO.9, Hadiyeh Alley, Dr. Shariati Street, Tehran, Iran. Postal Code: 1546817613
Phone: 02122220980
Fax: 02126411317
fa.mohamadi@sbmu.ac.ir

Article History

Received:   January  13, 2018
Accepted:   November 17, 2018
ePublished:   December 20, 2018

ABSTRACT

Aims Due to its role in promoting appropriate decisions on the health of individuals, health literacy can affect their quality of life. This study aimed at determining the correlation between health literacy and quality of life in athletic disabled women in Tehran.
Instrument & Methods This cross sectional descriptive study was conducted in 2017 among 169 athletic disabled women of the federation for the disabled and veterans in Tehran, who were selected by simple random sampling. Quality of life (SF-36) and health literacy questionnaires (HELIA) were used to collect the data. The data were analyzed by SPSS 20, using Pearson correlation coefficient and liner regression test.
Findings The mean score of total health literacy was 101.29±28.79 and the mean score of total quality of life was 53.02±21.94. There was a direct and significant correlation between the dimensions of physical and mental health of quality of life with all aspects of health literacy (p<0.01). Also, availability, reading, comprehension, evaluation, decision-making and application explained the variance in quality of life by 42.7%, 41.6%, 40.9%, 36.2%, and 19.4% (p<0.05).
Conclusion Having fair health literacy could improve the quality of life of athletic disabled women.

Keywords: Quality of Life , Health Literacy, Women , Disabled Persons , Athlete ,

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