Tuyen Van Duong|?ltyn Aringazina|Gaukhar Kayupova|Nurjanah Nurjanah|Thuc Van Pham|Khue M. Pham|Tien Quang Truong|Kien Trung Nguyen|Win Myint Oo|Tin Tin Su|Hazreen Abdul Majid|Kristine Sørensen|I?Feng Lin|Youngho Chang|Shiying Yang|Peter Chang
Development and Validation of a New Short-Form Health Literacy Instrument (HLS-SF12) for the General Public in Six Asian Countries
comprehensive shortform health literacy hl survey tool available general use across asiathis study aimed develop validate shortform hl instrument derived 47item european health literacy questionnaire hlseuq47a population survey n 10024 conducted 2013 2015 using hlseuq47 1029 participants indonesia 1845 kazakhstan 462 malaysia 1600 myanmar 3015 taiwan 2073 vietnam validation short form evaluated principle component analysis internal consistency pearson correlation regression analysisbased responses six countries 12item shortform hl questionnaire hlssf12 developed retaining conceptual framework hlseuq47 accounting high variance fullform ie 90 indonesia 91 myanmar 93 malaysia 94 taiwan 95 kazakhstan vietnam hlssf12 demonstrated adequate psychometric properties including high reliability cronbachs alpha 85 good criterionrelated validity moderate high level itemscale convergent validity floor ceiling effect good modeldatafit throughout populations countriesthe hlssf12 shown valid reliable tool hl surveys general public six asian countries hlrp health literacy research practice 201932e90e102a health literacy survey conducted 2013 2015 six asian countries using european health literacy questionnaire hlseuq47 collected data used develop validate comprehensive shortform questionnaire health literacy questionnaire 12 items hlssf12 retains original conceptual framework hlseuq47 demonstrated reliable valid