Cross-cultural validation of health literacy measurement tools in Italian oncology patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The aim of this study was to assess the psychometric characteristics of four Health Literacy (HL) measurement tools, viz. Newest Vital Sign (NVS), Short Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults (STOFHLA), Single Item Literacy Screener (SILS) and Single question on Self-rated Reading Ability (SrRA) among Italian oncology patients.

Methods

The original version of the tools were translated from the English language into Italian using a standard forward-backward procedure and according to internationally recognized good practices. Their internal consistency (reliability) and validity (construct, convergent and discriminative) were tested in a sample of 245 consecutive cancer patients recruited from seven Italian health care centers.

Results

The internal con

SUBMITTER: Zotti P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5477151 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature