The effect of digital literacy education given to postmenopausal women on health literacy and quality of life

Objective: This study was conducted to examine the effect of digital literacy education given to postmenopausal women on health literacy and quality of life. Method: This study is a randomized controlled experimental trial and has pre-test-post-test design. Postmenopausal patients and their relatives between the ages of 45 and 65, who applied to Bahçelievler State Hospital between September 2022 and April 2023, constituted the population of the study. 62 women who provide the study criteria were included in the sample group. The women who were trained digital literacy education are formed the Dijimeno group. The women who did not receive any intervention are formed the control group. Digital literacy educaiton and data collection process was implemented face to face. Results: After the digital literacy education was trained in the Dijimeno group, a statistically significant difference was found in as a decrease in the first and last evaluation Menopause-Specific Quality of Life Questionnaire (MENQOL) scores and an increase in the Digital Literacy Scale and Health Literacy Index scores compared to the control group. It was found that there was a statistically significant decrease in all off the MENQOL sub-domains except the Sexual sub-dimension in the Dijimeno group. It was determined that there was no significant difference in the sexual sub-dimension. A statistically significant increase was determined in all sub-dimension of Health Literacy Index. As a result, it was seen that digital literacy educaiton given to postmenopausal women was effective in improving health literacy and quality of life.