The impact of health literacy levels on women's fear of contracting Covid-19 and their attitudes toward holistic complementary and alternative medicine: Mediation analysis results.

THERAPEUTICS; RESEARCH; STATISTICAL power analysis; MATHEMATICAL statistics; STATISTICS; COVID-19; PARAMETERS (Statistics); ATTITUDE (Psychology); RESEARCH methodology; CROSS-sectional method; CHRONIC diseases; ONE-way analysis of variance; FEAR; HEALTH literacy; ATTITUDES toward illness; HOLISTIC medicine; CRONBACH'S alpha; PEARSON correlation (Statistics); T-test (Statistics); PSYCHOLOGY of women; FACTOR analysis; QUESTIONNAIRES; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; ACCESS to information; ALTERNATIVE medicine; SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC factors; STATISTICAL correlation; DATA analysis software; DATA analysis; COVID-19 pandemic; EDUCATIONAL attainment

Researchers aim to examine mediating variable role of health literacy in the relationship between fear of contracting Covid-19 in women and use of holistic complementary alternative medicine. The study was conducted as descriptive cross-sectional. The researchers collected study data by conducting an online questionnaire from 285 women between April 01 and June 30, 2021. In our study, a significant relationship was found between education level and health literacy, having a chronic illness, not being able to find a permanent job and fear of Covid-19 (p < 0.05). Positive correlation exists between fear of contracting Covid-19 and Holistic Complementary and Alternative Medicine Practice (correlation between HCAM Practice β=.21). When health literacy variable is included, the level of relationship decreases (β=.18). The researchers determined that as the level of health literacy increased, the women resorted to HCAM practices less despite their fear of contracting Covid-19. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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