Characteristics
Domains assessed:
Prose: Comprehension, Prose: Pronunciation
Specific context:
Health Promotion
Validation sample population age:
Adults: 18 to 64 years
Modes of administration in validation study
:
Face-to-face
Assessment:
Objective
Psychometrics
Number of items:
18
Sample size in validation study:
226
Administration Time (minutes):
1 minutes
Language of validated version:
Portuguese
Main article reference
Apolinario, D., Braga, R.C., Magaldi, R.M., et al. (2012). Short assessment of health literacy for Portuguese-speaking adults. Rev Saude Publica, 46:702–11.
Link to articleCorresponding author
Daniel Apolinario
Description
To assess an individual's ability to correctly pronounce and understand common medical terms
Year Measure first Published: 2012
About This Measure
Measure style:
REALM Family
Categorical scoring:
No
Scoring categories:
Sum score
Reliability: Test-retest correlation:
95% CI 0.76; 0.96
About the Validation of this Measure
Country where validated:
Brazil
Content validity:
Instrument derived from the validated "Short Assessment of Health Literacy for Spanish-Speaking Adults (SAHLSA)". Instrument translated from Spanish to Portuguese and then back into Spanish by independent professionals.
Criterion validity:
SAHLPA score had high correlation with formal education (Spearman's r=0.65), self-reported functional literacy (Spearman's r=0.76), and a Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) score (Spearman's r=0.63), all statistically significant.
Reliability (Cronbach Alpha):
0.9
Reliability notes:
SAHLPA-18 had satisfactory internal consistency.
