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Chinese Health Literacy Scale for Chronic Care

Characteristics

Domains assessed: Application/function
Specific context: General
Validation sample population age: Adults: 18 to 64 years
Modes of administration in validation study: Face-to-face

Psychometrics

Number of items: 20
Sample size in validation study: 262
Administration Time (minutes): 7 minutes
Language of validated version: Cantonese

Main article reference

Leung, A.Y., Cheung, M.K., Lou, V.W., Chan, F.H., Ho, C.K., Do, T.L., Chan, S.S., & Chi, I. (2013). Development and validation of the Chinese Health Literacy Scale for Chronic Care. J Health Commun, 18 Suppl 1:205-22.

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Corresponding author

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Angela Leung
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School of Nursing, The University of Hong Kong, 4th Floor, William Mong Block, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine Building, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, China
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Description

Assess chronic care knowledge in Chinese adults with 3 subscales (understanding, applying, and analyzing)

Year Measure first Published: 2013

About This Measure

Categorical scoring: No
Scoring categories: Sum score

About the Validation of this Measure

Country where validated: China
Content validity: The CHLCC was developed with reference to the revised Bloom’s Taxonomy.
Reliability notes: IRT: b= -1.73 to 0.65, and a=1.09 to 5.68
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