Development and Psychometric Properties of a Questionnaire Assessing Self-Reported Generic Health Literacy in Adolescence
| Autor: | Olga Domanska, Anne-Kathrin M. Loer, Susanne Jordan, Liane Schenk, Christine Holmberg, Torsten Michael Bollweg |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Self-assessment Adolescent Psychometrics Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis lcsh:Medicine Health literacy Disease MOHLAA-Questionnaire Article 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Cronbach's alpha Surveys and Questionnaires Humans 030212 general & internal medicine adolescents Child Reliability (statistics) validation 030505 public health questionnaire lcsh:R Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Reproducibility of Results Cognition subjective measurement self-assessment Focus group Confirmatory factor analysis Female Self Report 0305 other medical science Psychology health literacy Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Volume 17 Issue 8 International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 17, Iss 2860, p 2860 (2020) |
| ISSN: | 1660-4601 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/ijerph17082860 |
| Popis: | Health literacy is a promising approach to promoting health and preventing disease among children and adolescents. Promoting health literacy in early stages of life could contribute to reducing health inequalities. However, it is difficult to identify concrete needs for action as there are few age-adjusted measures to assess generic health literacy in young people. Our aim was to develop a multidimensional measure of health literacy in German to assess generic health literacy among 14- to 17-year-old adolescents, namely, the &ldquo Measurement of Health Literacy Among Adolescents Questionnaire&rdquo (MOHLAA-Q). The development process included two stages. Stage 1 comprised the development and validation using a literature review, two rounds of cognitive interviews, two focus groups and two rounds of expert assessments by health literacy experts. Stage 2 included a standard pretest (n = 625) of the questionnaire draft to examine the psychometric properties, reliability and different validity aspects. The MOHLAA-Q consists of 29 items in four scales: (A) &ldquo Dealing with health-related information (HLS-EU-Q12-adolescents-DE)&rdquo (B) &ldquo Communication and interaction skills&rdquo (C) &ldquo Attitudes toward one&rsquo s own health and health information&rdquo and (D) &ldquo Health-related knowledge&rdquo The confirmatory factor analysis indicated a multidimensional structure of the MOHLAA-Q. The internal consistency coefficients (Cronbach&rsquo s &alpha ) of the scales varied from 0.54 to 0.77. The development of the MOHLAA-Q constitutes a significant step towards the comprehensive measurement of adolescents&rsquo health literacy. However, further research is necessary to re-examine its structural validity and to improve the internal consistency of two scales. |
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