| CA | Control arm |
| CG | Control group |
| CINAHL | Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature |
| CVI | Content validity index |
| CVR | Content validity ratio |
| HL | Health literacy |
| HLQ | Health Literacy Questionnaire |
| HLS-EU-Q47 | European Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire |
| IA | Intervention arm |
| IG | Intervention group |
| IHLQ | Iranian Health Literacy Questionnaire |
| LSQ | Lifestyle Questionnaire |
| MeSH | Medical subjects heading |
| MHLAPQ | Maternal Health Literacy and Pregnancy Outcome Questionnaire |
| PICO | PICO question (population/intervention/comparation/outcome) |
| PRISMA | Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses |
| PROSPERO | International prospective register of systematic reviews |
| RCT | Randomized clinical trial |
| REALM | Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine |
| RoB2 | Risk of Bias tool version 2 |
| SILS | Single Item Literacy Screener test |
| S-TOFHLA | Short version of the Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults |
| WHO | World Health Organization |