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We aimed to determine health literacy (HL), quality of life (QoL) and clinical outcomes in young adults from the BELgian CROhn's disease registry (BELCRO) in comparison to type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM) as a control.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Methods:<\/jats:bold> In this prospective and observational study, young adults with Crohn's disease (CD) diagnosed &amp;lt; 18 years and with &amp;gt; 5 years disease duration and a comparable group of patients with DM completed validated HL, QoL and work productivity and activity impairment questionnaires (HLS-EU-Q16, EQ-5D-5L and WPAI). HL was scored as sufficient (13\u201316), problematic (9\u201312) or inadequate (0\u20138). QoL was dichotomized into \u201cno problems\u201d (EQ-5D level 1) or \u201cproblems\u201d (EQ-5D levels 2 to 5). Non-parametric (Mann-Whitney <jats:italic>U<\/jats:italic>) analyses and Spearman correlations were performed.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Results:<\/jats:bold> A total of 52 CD (median [IQR] age of 25.0 [23.8-27.0], 64% male) and 50 DM (age 20.0 [19.0-22.0], 50% male) patients were included. HL was 14.0 [11.0-16.0] for CD and 14.0 [11.3-14.8] for DM (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.6) with similar proportions of sufficient (60 vs. 68%, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.4), problematic (34 vs. 26%, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.3) and inadequate HL (both 6%, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 1). Although QoL was comparable for CD and DM (77.0 [68.8-82.0] vs. 75.0 [65.0-80.0] %, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> =0.4), CD had a trend for higher pain\/discomfort (50 vs. 32%, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.06). HL and QoL correlated in CD (<jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic> = 0.6, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.001) and DM patients (<jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic> = 0.6, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.001). Fewer CD patients with recent hospitalization\/surgery had sufficient HL (31 vs. 69%, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.01) and had lower QoL (70.0 [60.0-77.0] vs. 80.0 [70.0-85.0], <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.04) compared to those without.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Conclusions:<\/jats:bold> Selected young Belgian adults suffering from CD for &amp;gt;5 years have similar and sufficient HL compared to DM patients. 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