Health Literacy, Healthy Lifestyle Behaviours and PhysicalActivity in Sports Sciences Faculty Students: A MediationAnalysis

OpenAlex İngilizce

This study aims to investigate whether the health literacy of sports science faculty students positively influences their physical activity and whether healthy lifestyle behavior plays a mediating role in the relationship between health literacy and physical activity. The research was conducted in quantitative research method and relational screening model. A total of 262 (F=110, M=152) students studying at Süleyman Demirel University Faculty of Sport Sciences participated in the study voluntarily. Personal Information Form, Turkey Health Literacy Scale-32, Health Promotion Scale, International Physical Activity Questionnaire Short Form were used for the research data. The data were analyzed using Process Macro v3.3 plug-in with model 4 and 5000 resampling method with a 95% confidence interval. As a result of the study, it was determined that health literacy did not have a statistically significant effect on physical activity in sport sciences faculty students, but healthy lifestyle behavior played a mediating role in the relationship between health literacy and physical activity. As a result, it can be said that increasing the health literacy of sport sciences students may be important in participation in physical activity by increasing healthy lifestyle behaviors. For this reason, it is recommended to include more practices that increase health literacy among students of the faculty of sports sciences.