Development and validation of assessments of adolescent health literacy: a Rasch measurement model approach.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Health literacy (HL) is implicated in improved health decision-making and health promotion, and reduced racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic health disparities. Three major areas of HL include functional, interactive, and critical HL. HL skills develop throughout the lifespan as individuals' psychosocial and cognitive capacities develop and as they accumulate experiences with navigating health systems. Though adolescence is marked by increased involvement in health decision-making, most HL studies and measures of HL have focused on adults. Both the adult and adolescent HL literature are also limited by the paucity of validated test-based measures for assessing HL. The existing test-based validated HL measures for adolescents were originally designed for adults. However, ado

SUBMITTER: Fleary SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8953064 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature