Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on University Students’ Health Literacy and Its Impact on Physical Activity and Sleep Quality

Ayşe Göktaş and Nuray Girgin

SAGE Open, 2025, vol. 15, issue 3, 21582440251347632

Abstract: This research aims to determine university students’ health literacy level and to investigate its relationship with physical activity level and sleep quality. Turkey Health Literacy Scale-32 questionnaire was used to examine health literacy levels, taking into account sociodemographic and academic variables physical activity levels were measured using the “International Physical Activity Survey Short Form,†and sleep quality was assessed using the “Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index.†The study included 417 students with an average age of 24.9 years. Among them, 50.1% were enrolled in occupational therapy programs, 26.4% in physiotherapy programs, 11% in other health-related fields, and 12.5% in non-health-related fields. 19.7% of participants were classified as proficient in health literacy. It was found that physiotherapy students had significantly higher health literacy scores compared to students studying occupational therapy and those in non-health-related departments (p1:.026; p2:.021; p  

Keywords: health literacy; pandemic; physical activity; sleep quality; students/education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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