Characteristics
Domains assessed:
Prose: Comprehension
Specific context:
Health Promotion
Validation sample population age:
Adults: 18 to 64 years
Modes of administration in validation study:
Paper and pencil
Psychometrics
Number of items:
15
Sample size in validation study:
839
Language of validated version:
Taiwanese
Main article reference
Pan, F. (2010). A short form of the Taiwan Health Literacy Scale (THLS) for Chinese-Speaking adults. World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, 4:1054-1059.
Corresponding author
Frank Pan
Description
General medical word recognition test that reflects health words used in Taiwan, and includes a subjective rating of word comprehension
Year Measure first Published: 2010
About This Measure
Categorical scoring:
No
About the Validation of this Measure
Country where validated:
Taiwan
Content validity:
Based on the premise of THLS, this research adopted an Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) in an attempt to shorten the list of the scale by identifying the items that will have the greatest loading in a respondent’s health literacy on one hand, and can represent the majority of variance of the original scale on the other.
