Hidemi Hashimoto|Satoshi Yanagisawa
Development of health literacy scale among Brazilian mothers in Japan
Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts|Aichi Prefectural University
japanesebrazilians third largest immigrant group japan 2011 health issues caused concern limited language made vulnerable hindering access health services upon considering child health mothers health literacy hl important study aimed develop health literacy scale among brazilian mothers hlsbm japan questionnaires portuguese distributed 1474 mothers december 2011 march 2012 among 698 collected 558 questionnaires analyzed prepared 29 candidate items hlsbm based nutbeams concept functional interactive critical literacy dimensional structure determined statistically using confirmatory factor analysis validity also analyzed pearsons correlation ishikawas scale kendalls coefficient concordance among researchers cronbachs coefficients calculated examine internal consistency confirmatory factor analysis revealed twofactor model five items basic literacy five items critical literacy sufficient goodness fit gfi 969 agfi 945 nfi 959 cfi 972 rmsea 060 internal consistency values total score basic critical literacy subscales 0819 0889 0667 respectively kendalls coefficient concordance showed good agreement researchers p 0001 pearsons correlation coefficients ishikawas scale 0554 total score 0446 basic literacy 0472 critical literacy hlsbm consisting two factors confirmed valid reliable hlsbm must useful understanding vulnerable groups health literacy associated factors