Designing and Investigating the Validity and Reliability of the Health Literacy Questionnaire in Iran: Recognizing the Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Diseases, Diabetes, and Cancer.

Background: Health literacy (HL) has been recognized as an important concept in patient education and disease prevention. The rising burden of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in Iran is significant. Hence, we designed and validated an HL questionnaire on the most important domains of NCDs, including cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and cancer.