Measuring and Exploring Children's Health Literacy in The Netherlands: Translation and Adaptation of the HLS-Child-Q15.

ABSTRACT: As health literacy (HL) is hypothesized to develop throughout life, enhancement during childhood will improve HL and health during life. There are few valid, age-appropriate tools to assess children's HL. The German-language European Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire Adapted for Children (HLS-Child-Q15-DE) is a self-report questionnaire adapted from the adult European Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire. This study aims to translate the HLS-Child-Q15 to Dutch and explore the sample's HL distribution. The HLS-Child-Q15-DE was translated following WHO guidelines and administered digitally to 209 Dutch schoolchildren (eight-to-eleven-year-olds). Its psychometric properties were assessed and the sample's HL distribution was explored by demographic characteristics. The HLS-Child-Q15-NL had

SUBMITTER: Hahnraths MTH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8156463 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature