Development and validation of the comprehensive health activities scale: a new approach to health literacy measurement.

ABSTRACT: Current health literacy measures have been criticized for solely measuring reading and numeracy skills when a broader set of skills is necessary for making informed health decisions, especially when information is often conveyed verbally and through multimedia video. The authors devised 9 health tasks and a corresponding 190-item assessment to more comprehensively measure health literacy skills. A sample of 826 participants between the ages of 55 and 74 years who were recruited from an academic general internal medicine practice and three federally qualified health centers in Chicago, Illinois, completed the assessment. Items were reduced using hierarchical factor analysis and item response theory resulting in the 45-item Comprehensive Health Activities Scale. All 45 items loaded on 1 gene

SUBMITTER: Curtis LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4346471 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature