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Indonesian Version of the 47-Item European Health Literacy Questionnaire

Characteristics

Domains assessed: Communication: Speaker, Communication: Listener
Specific context: General
Validation sample population age: Older Adults: 65+ years, Adults: 18 to 64 years, Adolescents: 10 to 17 years
Modes of administration in validation study: Face-to-face

Psychometrics

Number of items: 47
Sample size in validation study: 1029
Language of validated version: Indonesian

Main article reference

Duong, TV.., Aringazina, A., Baisunova, G., Nurjanah, Pham, T.V., Pham, K.M., et al. (2017). Measuring health literacy in Asia: Validation of the HLS-EU-Q47 survey tool in six Asian countries. Journal of Epidemiology, 27(2): 80–86. doi: 10.1016/j.je.2016.09.005

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Corresponding author

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Tuyen Duong
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Taipei Medical University and National Taipei Hospital, MOHW, No. 127 Sheyuan Road, New Taipei City, Taiwan
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Description

A comprehensive health literacy tool in the Indonesian language.

Year Measure first Published: 2017

About This Measure

About the Validation of this Measure

Country where validated: Indonesia
Content validity: The original English HLS-EU-Q47 was translated to Indonesian using forward-backward translation. Cultural perspectives were taken into account during the translation process. Next, the measure was pre-tested by research partners in Indonesia.
Reliability (Cronbach Alpha): 0.94
Reliability notes: Split-half Spearman-Brown coefficient=0.87
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