The Role of General Health and Health Literacy in Self-Care Behaviors of Patients with Covid-19

Background: Self-care is an important concept in controlling COVID-19 disease and a simple effective way to maintain improve health. This study aimed examine the role of general health literacy predicting self-care behaviors patients with COVID-19. Methods: research was cross-sectional predictive correlational design. The sample consisted 385 mild moderate infection referring diagnosis treatment center Shahid Beheshti Hospital Kashan City, Iran, from June September 2021. subjects were under quarantine at home recruited by convenience sampling. data collected questionnaire (GHQ-28), Iranian (IHLQ), researcher-made on (SCB-COVID-19). Pearson correlation coefficient, t-test, logistic regression used for analysis SPSS software, version 19. significance level set P<0.05. Results: Mean±SD scores behaviors, literacy, 224.89±21.49, 63.78±21.28, 50.99±12.81, respectively. There significant relationships between (r=0.567, P=0.001) (r=235, P=0.001). Logistic showed that about 42% score changes are explained variables (R2=0.42) Conclusion: results patients. Our can integrate into body knowledge help well-being populations outbreak.