Objective: This study aimed to determine individuals’ health literacy and cyberchondria severity and related factors.Methods: This is a cross-sectional study. The population of the study consisted of individuals who were aged ≥18 years and lived in the central county of Bitlis province. Data were collected face to face by applying a questionnaire to 400 volunteers who agreed to participate in the study.
Data collection tools included the Turkish Health Literacy Scale-32, and the Cyberchondria Severity Scale. Mann-Whitney U test, Kruskal-Wallis variance analysis, independent samples t-test and One Way ANOVA test were used in the analyses. Further analyses were performed with Tamhane's T2 and Bonferroni correction.
Spearman test was utilized for correlation analysis. P 0.05).Conclusion: More than half of the individuals had low health literacy levels. No significant correlation was found between cyberchondria and health literacy.