The Social Insurance Literacy Questionnaire (SILQ): Development and Psychometric Evaluation.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

For clients to understand social insurance decisions and processes, information from authorities needs to be comprehensible, and clients need sufficient individual abilities. These dimensions are captured by the concept social insurance literacy, which has been operationalized into a measure, the Social Insurance Literacy Questionnaire (SILQ). The aim of this study was to describe the development of the SILQ and evaluate its psychometric properties using Rasch measurement theory.

Methods

The development of the SILQ included a Delphi study and cognitive interviews. A preliminary version, divided on four scales corresponding to the domains of the concept (obtaining information, understanding information, acting on information, and system comprehensibility) was psychome

SUBMITTER: Stahl C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11364705 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature