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Measuring health literacy in populations: illuminating the design and development process of the European Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire (HLS-EU-Q)

BMC public health, 2013-10, Vol.13 (1), p.948-948, Article 948 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

COPYRIGHT 2013 BioMed Central Ltd. ;2013 Sørensen et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. ;Copyright © 2013 Sørensen et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2013 Sørensen et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. ;ISSN: 1471-2458 ;EISSN: 1471-2458 ;DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-948 ;PMID: 24112855

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  • Title:
    Measuring health literacy in populations: illuminating the design and development process of the European Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire (HLS-EU-Q)
  • Author: Sørensen, Kristine ; Van den Broucke, Stephan ; Pelikan, Jürgen M ; Fullam, James ; Doyle, Gerardine ; Slonska, Zofia ; Kondilis, Barbara ; Stoffels, Vivian ; Osborne, Richard H ; Brand, Helmut
  • Subjects: Adult ; Ethnic Groups ; Europe ; Female ; Health Literacy ; Health Status Indicators ; Health surveys ; Health Surveys - standards ; Humans ; Language ; Male ; Methods ; Middle Aged ; Questionnaires ; Reproducibility of Results ; Surveys ; Surveys and Questionnaires - standards ; Translating and interpreting
  • Is Part Of: BMC public health, 2013-10, Vol.13 (1), p.948-948, Article 948
  • Description: Several measurement tools have been developed to measure health literacy. The tools vary in their approach and design, but few have focused on comprehensive health literacy in populations. This paper describes the design and development of the European Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire (HLS-EU-Q), an innovative, comprehensive tool to measure health literacy in populations. Based on a conceptual model and definition, the process involved item development, pre-testing, field-testing, external consultation, plain language check, and translation from English to Bulgarian, Dutch, German, Greek, Polish, and Spanish. The development process resulted in the HLS-EU-Q, which entailed two sections, a core health literacy section and a section on determinants and outcomes associated to health literacy. The health literacy section included 47 items addressing self-reported difficulties in accessing, understanding, appraising and applying information in tasks concerning decisions making in healthcare, disease prevention, and health promotion. The second section included items related to, health behaviour, health status, health service use, community participation, socio-demographic and socio-economic factors. By illuminating the detailed steps in the design and development process of the HLS-EU-Q, it is the aim to provide a deeper understanding of its purpose, its capability and its limitations for others using the tool. By stimulating a wide application it is the vision that HLS-EU-Q will be validated in more countries to enhance the understanding of health literacy in different populations.
  • Publisher: England: BioMed Central Ltd
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 1471-2458
    EISSN: 1471-2458
    DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-948
    PMID: 24112855
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