Characteristics
Domains assessed:
Organizational Health Literacy
Specific context:
Arthritis, Organizational Health Literacy
Validation sample population age:
Adults: 18 to 64 years, Older Adults: 65+ years
Modes of administration in validation study
:
Mailed survey, Phone-based
Psychometrics
Number of items:
30
Sample size in validation study:
601
Language of validated version:
English
Main article reference
Corresponding author
Beverly Weidmer
Description
Serves as a quality improvement tool, and an assessment of how effectively providers have communicated with patients.
Year Measure first Published: 2016
About This Measure
About the Validation of this Measure
Country where validated:
United States of America
Content validity:
Steps to develop items included conducting an environmental scan to identify relevant content and survey measures, publishing a Call for Measures in the Federal Register, and consulting stakeholders/health literacy experts.
Reliability notes:
Internal consistency reliability for Communication to Improve Health Literacy composite was 0.89. Internal consistency reliability for the Communication about Medicines composite was 0.71. Internal consistency reliability for 5-item subset of Communication to Improve Health Literacy composite was 0.79.
Additional Notes:
Composites scored by transforming items into 0-100 range and then average the items that make up each composite.
