Hae Ra Han|Boyun Huh|Miyong T. Kim|Jiyun Kim|Tam H. Nguyen
Development and Validation of the Assessment of Health Literacy in Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening
Johns Hopkins Medicine|Johns Hopkins University|Johns Hopkins Medicine|Johns Hopkins University|The University of Texas at Austin|Gachon University|Boston College
many people limited health literacy major barrier effective preventive health behavior cancer screening yet comprehensive health literacy measure specific breast cervical cancer screening readily available purpose article describe development testing new instrument measure health literacy context breast cervical cancer screening assessment health literacy cancer screening ahlc ahlc based bakers conceptualization health literacy modeled two popular health literacy tests rapid estimate adult literacy medicine test functional health literacy adults ahlc consists four subscales print literacy numeracy comprehension familiarity used baseline data 560 korean american immigrant women participated communitybased randomized trial designed test effect health literacyfocused intervention promote breast cervical cancer screening rigorous psychometric testing supports ahlc reliable valid significantly correlated theoretically selected variables future research needed test utility ahlc predicting cancer screening outcomes