Measuring health literacy combining performance-based and self-assessed measures: the roles of age, educational level and financial resources in predicting health literacy skills. A cross-sectional study conducted in Florence (Italy).

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The objective was to compare the results of performance-based and self-assessed measures of health literacy (HL) and to evaluate the contribution of their joint use in assessing some HL antecedents.

Design

This was a cross-sectional study.

Setting

The study was conducted on the general population in Florence (Italy).

Participants

This study is part of a larger one, where participants were randomly selected from the registries of 11 general practitioners working in the municipality of Florence. Inclusion criteria were the following: 18-69 years of age and Italian speaking. Exclusion criteria included cognitive impairment, severe psychiatric disease or end-stage disease. In this paper, 212 adults were included.

Outcome measures

HL was measured us

SUBMITTER: Lorini C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7537461 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature