Health Literacy Management Scale (HeLMS)

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Characteristics
Domains assessed: Prose: Comprehension, Information seeking: Document, Application/function
Specific context: General
Validation sample population age: Adults: 18 to 64 years
Modes of administration in validation study: Paper and pencil

Psychometrics
Number of items: 29
Sample size in validation study: 683
Language of validated version: English

Main article reference

Jordan, J.E., Buchbinder, R., Briggs, A.M., Elsworth, G.R., Busija, L., Batterham, R., & Osborne, R.H. (2013). The health literacy management scale (HeLMS): a measure of an individual's capacity to seek, understand and use health information within the healthcare setting. Patient Educ Couns, 91(2):228-35.

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Joanne Jordan
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Centre for Global Health and Equity, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Description

Survey items to assess the ability to seek, understand, and use health information within the health care setting. Weaknesses in items and breadth of the scale led to the development of a completely new scale, the Health Literacy Questionnaire (HLQ) which has become, in recent years, the most widely used HL questionnaire with the strongest psychometric properties of any HL questionnaire in the world.
See https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2458-13…
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Year Measure first Published: 2013

About This Measure
Categorical scoring: No
Scoring categories: Mean score of each domain

About the Validation of this Measure
Country where validated: Australia
Content validity: Content areas were identified from a conceptual framework derived from interviews and concept mapping, along with construction and replication samples utilized to test the items.
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