Heart Failture-Specific Health Literacy Scale
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Characteristics
Domains assessed:
Information seeking: Document
Specific context:
Heart Failure
Validation sample population age:
Adults: 18 to 64 years
Modes of administration in validation study:
Paper and pencil
Psychometrics
Number of items:
12
Sample size in validation study:
191
Language of validated version:
Japanese
Main article reference
Matsuoka, S., Kato, N., Kayane, T., Yamada, M., Koizumi, M., Ikegame, N., Tsuchihashi-Makaya, M. (2015). Development and Validation of a Heart Failure-Specific Health Literacy Scale, Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 31(2):131-139.
Corresponding author
Shiho Matsuoka
Description
An instrument for measuring functional, communicative, and critical levels of health literacy in patients with heart failure.
Year Measure first Published: 2015
About This Measure
Categorical scoring:
No
About the Validation of this Measure
Country where validated:
Japan
Content validity:
Surveyed health professionals engaged in heart failure treatment to generate questions. Then conducted a focus group with 5 nursing researchers to refine those questions. The researchers then selected items using the criteria presented in the literature. As a result, 14 candidate items were obtained for the scale.
Reliability notes:
Total scale a = .71; a=.73 for functional subscale; a = .68 for communicative subscale; a = .69 for critical subscale
