Juan Mohadeb, Luke Brueton-Campbell, Kris Doucet, Anna Reed, Devon Mitchell, Tamara McColl, Carys Massarella, Blair Bigham, Nadia Primiani, Robert Primavesi, Michael Kruse, Rusty Souleymanov, Ben Klassen, Adam Brandt, Colleen Dawson, Luca Gheorghica, Noé Prefontaine, Jess Crawford, Seth Kamabu, Carmen Hrymak, Murdoch Leeies
Development and evaluation of a clinical simulation-based educational innovation on sexual orientation and gender identity in emergency medicine
CJEM
health literacy research palestine limited locally validated tool use among adolescents unavailable therefore study aimed adapt health literacy assessment scale adolescents hasa arabic language hasaar palestinian context investigate psychometric properties conducted crosssectional household survey using stratified random sample household facetoface interviews conducted 1200 interviews sixth ninth graders ramallah albireh district west bank palestine 2017 translated adapted hasa sensitive palestinian context tested psychometric properties evaluated face content validity backtranslation process checked construct validity exploratory factor analysis efa tested internal consistency using cronbachs alpha macdonalds omega test greatest lower bound glb furthermore calculated scales average interitem correlation efa revealed hasaar similar structure original hasa extracted three factors communication confusion functional health literacy whose eigenvalues 1 together explained 57 total variance proportions adolescents high levels communication confusion functional health literacy 45 68 80 respectively cronbachs alpha macdonalds omega glb values communication subscale 087 088 090 078 077 079 confusion subscale 077 077 080 respectively functional healthy literacy subscale average interitem correlation subscales ranged 036 059 hasaar valid reliable health literacy measuring instrument appropriate psychometric properties hasaar currently available use among adolescents palestine surrounding arab countries similar characteristics palestine including language culture political instability