Korean Health Literacy Instrument
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Characteristics
Domains assessed:
Prose: Comprehension, Numeracy, Information seeking: Document
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:
18
Sample size in validation study:
315
Administration Time (minutes):
24 minutes
Language of validated version:
Korean
Main article reference
Kang, S.J., Lee, T.W., Paasche-Orlow, M.K., Kim, G.S., Won, H.K. (2014). Development and Evaluation of the Korean Health Literacy Instrument, Journal of Health Communication, 19(2):254-266.
Corresponding author
Soo Jin Kang
Description
To develop and conduct initial validation of the Korean Health Literacy Instrument to measure functional, interactive, and critical health literacy with prose, document, and numeracy tasks.
Year Measure first Published: 2014
About This Measure
Categorical scoring:
No
About the Validation of this Measure
Country where validated:
South Korea
Content validity:
Developed in 3 phases. Phase 1: Test item stimuli were selected from health educational materials for chronic diseases used in clinical settings and from other prose and non-prose documents used in clinical and public health settings. 33 items were generated but after evaluation by an expert panel of 12 health care professionals - 11 items were excluded. A preliminary test was completed with face-to-face interviews with a convenience sample of adult Korean participants and 4 more items were then eliminated to include 18 items.
Reliability notes:
Internal consistency: (KR = .80). Functional literacy subscale: a = .663; Interactive literacy subscale: a = .635; Critical literacy subscale: a = .536
