Characteristics
Domains assessed:
Application/function, Appraisal, Comprehension, Prose: Comprehension
Specific context:
General, Health Literacy
Validation sample population age:
Adults: 18 to 64 years
Modes of administration in validation study:
Face-to-face
Psychometrics
Number of items:
16
Sample size in validation study:
340
Language of validated version:
Hindi
Main article reference
Dsouza, J. P., Van den Broucke, S., & Pattanshetty, S. (2021). Validity and Reliability of the Indian Version of the HLS-EU-Q16 Questionnaire. International journal of environmental research and public health, 18(2), 495. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18020495
Link to articleCorresponding author
Dsouza Jyoshma Preema
Description
Validated and developed tool to an Indian version of the short form of the newly revised European Health Literacy Questionnaire.
Year Measure first Published: 2021
About This Measure
Categorical scoring:
Yes
About the Validation of this Measure
Country where validated:
India
Content validity:
The development and validation was using a literature review, two rounds of cognitive interviews, two focus groups, and two rounds of expert assessments by health literacy experts. Stage 2 included a standard pretest (n = 625) of the questionnaire draft to examine the psychometric properties, reliability, and different validity aspects.
Reliability notes:
"Test-retest reliability after 1 week among the Hindi and Kannada subsamples gave Pearson’s correlation coefficients of r = 0.8 (p < 0.05) for the Hindi subsample, and r = 0.7 (p <0.05) for the Kannada subsample which shows a high correlation." "Cronbach’s alpha coefficients, which are = 0.95 and = 0.92 for the Hindi and Kannada subsamples which are above the acceptable limits of >0.9, respectively.Cronbach’s alpha for the Hindi version of the tool (HLS-IND-HIN-Q16) was 0.98, and for Kannada version (HLS-IND-KAN-Q16) 0.97"
