Measurement of critical health literacy in primary school pupils: a Polish validation of the Claim Evaluation Tools.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Amid increasing adolescents' immersion in media information and their vulnerability to mis/disinformation and the screen time negative health correlates, competences of critical thinking about health gains in significance. The Claim Evaluation Tools (CET) assess the understanding of claims about treatment effects and enable critical health literacy measurement in different populations. It has not been adapted and tested in Central Europe before.

Design

The process of cultural adaptation covered three phases: translation and cultural adaptation, testing and psychometric analysis. We used Classical Test Theory and Rasch analysis to verify the validity and reliability of the Polish version of the CET. Additionally, we tested known-group and convergent validity.

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SUBMITTER: Prokop-Dorner A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12273065 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature