Measuring health literacy among low literate people: an exploratory feasibility study with the HLS-EU questionnaire.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Health literacy (HL) is defined as necessary competencies to make well-informed decisions. As patients' decision making is a key element of patient-centered health care, insight in patients' HL might help healthcare professionals to organize their care accordingly. This is particularly true for people in a vulnerable situation, potentially with limited HL, who are, for instance, at greater risk of having limited access to care [1, 2]. As HL correlates with education, instruments should allow inclusion of low literate people. To that end, the relatively new instrument, HLS-EU-Q47, was subjected to a comprehensibility test, its shorter version, HLS-EU-Q16, was not. Therefore, the goal of this study was to examine feasibility of HLS-EU-Q16 (in Dutch) for use in a population

SUBMITTER: Storms H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5438531 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature