Justice T Walker, Lydia Stamato, S Nisa Asgarali-Hoffman, Foad Hamidi, Lisa Z Scheifele
Community laboratories in the United States: BioMakerspaces for life science learning
Public understanding of science (Bristol, England)
environmental health literacy ehl involves understanding using environmental information make decisions health study developed validated survey instrument four scales assessing mediaspecific ie air food water general ehl four scales created follows 1 item generation environmental health scientists statisticians developed initial set items three domains knowledge attitudes behaviors 2 item review items reviewed face validity 3 validation 174 public health students exploratory sample 98 community members test sample validated scales scales factor structure based exploratory factor analysis efa model fit assessed confirmatory factor analysis cfa scale final efa resulted independent threefactor solution knowledge attitudes behaviors good fit threefactor structure observed model fit cfa generally confirmed fit indices scales showed internal consistency cronbachs alpha 063 070 42item instrument represents important contribution towards assessing ehl designed enable meaningful engagement researchers community members environmental health intended outcome sustained communityacademic partnerships benefiting research design implementation translation dissemination community action