fa سواد سلامت، اتاق‌های انتظار، انتشار اطلاعات/روش‌ها، اطلاع‌رسانی به متقاضی سلامت سردربیر عمومى General نامه به سردبیر Letter to the Editor فاقد چکیده (نامه به سردبیر) <span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:95%"><span style="unicode-bidi:embed"><span ms="" style="font-family:" trebuchet=""><span style="color:black"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="line-height:95%"><span style="font-family:Optima"><span style="color:black"><span style="letter-spacing:.15pt">Health literacy in Iran remains below optimal levels, highlighting the need for greater emphasis on patient education. Patients&#39; waiting time in clinical settings is a largely underutilized resource that often passes without purposeful use, despite its potential to enhance health awareness and strengthen the physician&ndash;patient relationship. This letter proposes practical, low-cost strategies to transform waiting time into a productive educational opportunity, including short educational videos, QR codes linking to reliable health content, small physical libraries of brochures and booklets, digital kiosks or tablets with restricted access to health-related content, smart waiting rooms utilizing virtual reality and artificial intelligence, gamification techniques, health-oriented mobile applications, and simple interactive activities such as quizzes and suggestion boxes. While these interventions offer clear benefits, their implementation may be limited by financial and infrastructural constraints, variations in patients&#39; health literacy and digital literacy, information overload, and privacy concerns. Therefore, such strategies should be designed with attention to the demographic and sociocultural characteristics of the target population. Overall, purposeful use of waiting time may improve patients&#39; health knowledge, reduce anxiety, and enhance the quality of clinical care.</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="line-height:95%"><span style="font-family:Optima"><span style="color:black"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> سواد سلامت, اتاق های انتظار, انتشار اطلاعات/روش ها, اطلاع رسانی به متقاضی سلامت Health literacy, Health-seeker information provision, Information/method dissemination, Waiting rooms 41 50 http://sjku.muk.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-6879-4&slc_lang=fa&sid=1 Amin Ansarinia امین انصاری نیا ansar.ssu@gmail.com 4480084223 5400319475328460074557 No . Orthodontics Department, Dental Material Research Center, Dental Research Institute, School of Dentistry, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran گروه ارتودنسی، مرکز تحقیقات مواد دندانی، پژوهشکده علوم دندان‌پزشکی، دانشکده دندان‌پزشکی، دانشگاه علوم پزشکی اصفهان، اصفهان، ایران Fatemeh Zarei Mahmoud abadi فاطمه زارعی محمود آبادی ftm.zarei09@gmail.com 4480193502 0009-0000-4144-815x Yes Pharmacy Student, School of Pharmacy, Yazd University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran دانشجوی داروسازی، دانشکده داروسازی، دانشگاه علوم پزشکی یزد، یزد، ایران