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  1 - Psychometric Properties of the Persian Version of the Mental Health Literacy Scale (MHLS) in Iranian Students
  fateme jafari arezoo zarebi Abbas  Abdollahi Simin  Hosseinian
  The aim of the present study was to prepare a Persian version of the Mental Health Literacy Scale (MHLS) of O’Connor & Casey (2015) and to examine its psychometric properties. In order to 346 people of undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students of Shahroud University More

  The aim of the present study was to prepare a Persian version of the Mental Health Literacy Scale (MHLS) of O’Connor & Casey (2015) and to examine its psychometric properties. In order to 346 people of undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students of Shahroud University in 1998 were selected through available sampling And completed the Persian version of the MHLS (2015), the Psychological Assistant Attitude Scale - Fischer and Farina (1995) -Short Form, Health Anxiety inventory - Salkovskis & Warwick -Short Form (2002), and Beck Depression Questionnaire. CVR was more than 0.62 percent and the CVI was more than 0.75 percent, indicating the appropriate content validity of the scale. The results of the confirmatory factor analysis showed that the factor load of the items is more than 0.15 and all the routes from the items to the variable hidden at the level. 0.5 were significant and the scale had a good construct validity. An examination of the validity of the structure using CFA showed that the scale has a factor structure consisting of 6 subscales. The study of validity at the same time as calculating the correlation of this scale with the scale of attitude with the help of psychological psychologists - Fisher and Farina (1995) short form, Health Anxiety Questionnaire - Salkoskis and Varvik short form (2002), indicates a positive relationship between mental health scale scores It was questionnaires. The results indicate that the mental health literacy scale is a valid and appropriate tool for use in Iranian society. Manuscript profile
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  2 - Comparison of the Health Literacy and the Lifestyle of Hospitalized Covid-19 Patients Admitted to the Hospital
  Bita raesi Ensiyeh Nazari Dulabi Amirhoseyn Afzali
  The aim of this study was to compare the health literacy and the lifestyle of Covid-19 patients admitted to Shahid Firooz-abadi Hospital in Tehran's 20th district and non-covid-19 patients. For this purpose, 60 Covid 19 patients admitted to the hospital were compared to More

  The aim of this study was to compare the health literacy and the lifestyle of Covid-19 patients admitted to Shahid Firooz-abadi Hospital in Tehran's 20th district and non-covid-19 patients. For this purpose, 60 Covid 19 patients admitted to the hospital were compared to 60 patients with diseases other than Covid-19. To achieve this goal, two questionnaires were submitted to the participants; Health literacy of Iran's Urban Population and Miller-Smith Lifestyle Assessment Ques naire. Data analysis was performed using central tendency analysis (mean), and multivariate analysis of variance. The results showed a significant difference between these two groups on the two variables of health literacy and lifestyle. The results showed that the Covid-19 patients had a higher level of health literacy than non-covid-19 patients. It is possible that covid-19 patients attempt to gather health-related information in order to accelerate the recovery process, to prevent other family members from getting infected, to reduce the side effects of medications and the disease, have led to an increase in health literacy in this group compared to non-covid-19 patients. Also, the unfavorable conditions and the long-term side-effects of Covid-19 have caused them to experience an unpleasant lifestyle compared to non-covid-19 patients. Manuscript profile