Characteristics
Domains assessed:
Prose: Comprehension, Numeracy, Communication: Speaker
Specific context:
General
Validation sample population age:
Adults: 18 to 64 years
Modes of administration in validation study:
Paper and pencil
Psychometrics
Number of items:
23
Sample size in validation study:
503
Administration Time (minutes):
15 minutes
Language of validated version:
Portuguese
Main article reference
Pires, C., Rosa, P., Vigário, M., & Cavaco, A. (2018). Short Assessment of Health Literacy (SAHL) in Portugal: Development and validation of a self-administered tool. Primary Health Care Research & Development, 1-18. doi:10.1017/S1463423618000087
Corresponding author
Carla Pires
Description
A self administrated tool to measure health literacy among the European Portuguese speaking adults.
Year Measure first Published: 2018
About This Measure
Categorical scoring:
Yes
Scoring categories:
They were scored as follows: incorrect answer: 0 points; partially correct answer containing some incorrect information: 1 point; partially correct answer without any incorrect information: 2 points; correct answer: 3 points; thus the maximum score was total score for each was 24 points.Participants scoring
About the Validation of this Measure
Country where validated:
Portugal
Content validity:
The development of the tool included adaptation and validation of the SAHLPA-18 tool and addition of 5 new items to the tool. The method of administration and scoring was also modified for this tool.
Reliability (Cronbach Alpha):
0.7
Reliability notes:
Cronbach’s α >0.7, mean-corrected item-total correlation >0.7
