Nemat Azizi|Mahmood Karimy|Rezvan Abedini|Bahram Armoon|Ali Montazeri
Development and Validation of the Health Literacy Scale for Workers
Saveh University of Medical Sciences|Saveh University of Medical Sciences|Saveh University of Medical Sciences|Saveh University of Medical Sciences|Iranian Institute for Health Sciences Research|Academic Center for Education, Culture and Research
background health literacy received growing attention recent years reduce health disparities health literate individuals gain access understand use health information maintain improve promote good health objective develop assess psychometric properties tool measurement health literacy among workers health literacy scale workers helsw methods 15 companies selected factories industrial city saveh 450 400 male 50 female workers saveh iran selected multistage random sampling study two stagesa qualitative quantitative stage qualitative phase workers beliefs extracted based 61 indepth interviews content validity assessed help 12 experts field health education public health occupational health also face validity evaluated interviewing 20 workers quantitative phase reliability questionnaire evaluated measuring internal consistency testretest reliability construct validity assessed principal component analysis using varimax rotation results exploratory factor analysis six domains ie access reading understanding assessment decision making applying health information selfefficacy 34 items loaded model explained 643 total variance intraclass correlation coefficient testretest reliability ranged 072 084 069 086 respectively conclusion seems developed persian questionnaire helsw reliable valid measure health literacy workers