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Abstract
Background: Health professionals, specifically nurses, are important providers of health information to health consumers. They influence health literacy demands placed on health consumers through effective interpersonal communication.Aim: To investigate the relationship between Health Literacy Assessment and Communication Self-Efficacy among nurses. Method: A descriptive correlational research design was used and the study was conducted on 310 staff nurses working at Aga Central Hospital by using two tools as: Tool I: Effective Communication Techniques Scale and tool II: Communication Self-Efficacy Scale. Results: The results indicated that there were highly statistically significant relationship between health literacy and communication self-efficacy. There was highly statistically significant relationship between health literacy scores of the studied nurses and their age, gender and working hours weekly. Conclusion: The study finding concluded that nearly two third of the studied nurses have moderate level of health literacy and have moderate levels of communication self –efficacy. There was highly statistically significant relationship between health literacy and communication self-efficacy. Recommendations: Develop a core set of measurable health literacy communication competencies that can be taught and evaluated not just to nurses, but to all health professionals. Insert many types of technology that could be useful in assisting patients to obtain, process, comprehend, as well as use health information and services.