Akgün Yeşiltepe

1 Introductıon The protection and promotion of health is a dynamic process aimed at enhancing individuals' control over their own health, enabling them to make informed health-related decisions, and improving their quality of life [1]. A fundamental component of this process is the adoption of healthy lifestyle behaviours.

1 Introduction Health literacy (HL), which first entered the literature in 1974 with Simond's article, is defined as ‘the capacity to access the information necessary for individuals to make appropriate decisions about health in order to promote and maintain good health; to understand, interpret and apply this information in their daily lives’ (Batterham et al. 2016; Dogan and Çetinkaya 2019).