Cross-sectional study investigates health literacy's role in shaping sustainable healthcare attitudes in nursing students, suggesting educational implications.
Key Points
This study explores the link between health literacy and sustainable healthcare attitudes among Saudi nursing students.
Cross-sectional design using three independent samples: exploratory factor analysis (n=385), confirmatory factor analysis (n=514), and hypothesis-testing correlational analysis (n=652).
Participants completed measures assessing health literacy dimensions and sustainable healthcare attitudes.
Analyses included correlation, multiple regression, and two-way ANOVA.
Strong positive correlations between health literacy and sustainable healthcare dimensions (r = .776, p < .001).
Health literacy predicted 60.3% of the variance in sustainable healthcare attitudes (F(3,648) = 328.147, p < .001).
Information literacy was the strongest predictor (β = 0.349).