Jean Shreffler-Grant|Clarann Weinert|Elizabeth Nichols
Instrument to Measure Health Literacy About Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Montana State University|Montana State University|Montana State University
health literacy essential skill todays health care consumers growth use complementary alternative medicine cam adds complexity sufficiently health literate purpose article describe initial psychometric evaluation montana state university msu cam health literacy scale newly developed instrument measure individuals health literacy camexploratory factor analyses reliabilities conceptual considerations usedthe outcome 21item instrument cronbachs alpha 753 4227 explained variance convergent validity assessments revealed weak significant correlations scale measures general health literacythe msu cam health literacy scale promise use future research clinical endeavors