Karen Patricia Williams|Thomas Templin
Bringing the Real World to Psychometric Evaluation of Cervical Cancer Literacy Assessments with Black, Latina, and Arab Women in Real-World Settings
Michigan State University|Wayne State University
research describes development evaluation new scale assessing functional cervical cancer health literacy cervical cancer literacy assessment tool cclat phase 1 35 items english spanish arabic cclat generated taking account three content domainsawareness knowledge preventioncontrol content validation 24 items retained psychometric evaluation phase 2 24item cclat evaluated three racialethnic populations urban women n 543 psychometric methods included item analysis multifactor item response theory modeling concurrent correlations final cclat consisted 16 items internal consistency reliability 072 cclat reliabilities black latina arab women 073 076 060 respectively rank order correlations item difficulties across racialethnic groups high rs 097 098 cclat positively related educational level arab women scored significantly higher black latina participants study presents psychometrically sound instrument measures health literacy related cervical cancer cclat tool orally administered lay person used communitybased health promotion intervention