Development and validation of the high blood pressure-focused health literacy scale.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

While the role of health literacy in chronic disease management is well documented, few intervention studies have been reported. A major barrier to designing and implementing such interventions is the lack of valid health literacy tools. This study developed and tested a novel health literacy scale for individuals with high blood pressure (HBP).

Methods

A two-step design process was used: In the construction phase, focus group studies and a literature review were conducted to generate a pool of items. The testing phase involved a psychometric evaluation and pilot-testing of the scale on hypertensive Korean Americans (n=386). The end product was a HBP-health literacy scale (HBP-HLS) with two essential domains, print literacy and functional health literacy.

Result

SUBMITTER: Kim MT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3288330 | biostudies-literature | 2012 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature