Daniel Apolinário|Rafaela de Castro Oliveira Pereira Braga|Regina Miksian Magaldi|Alexandre Leopold Busse|Flávia Campora|Sonia Brucki|Shoou?Yih Daniel Lee
Short Assessment of Health Literacy for Portuguese-speaking Adults
Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo|Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo|Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo|Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo|Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo|Universidade de São Paulo|University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
develop validate short health literacy assessment tool portuguesespeaking adultsthe short assessment health literacy portuguesespeaking adults assessment tool consists 50 items assess individuals ability correctly pronounce understand common medical terms evaluated instruments psychometric properties convenience sample 226 brazilian older adults construct validity assessed correlating tool scores years schooling selfreported literacy global cognitive functioning discrimination validity assessed testing tools accuracy detecting inadequate health literacy defined failure fully understand standard medical prescriptionsmoderate high correlations found assessment construct validity spearmans coefficients ranging 063 076 instrument showed adequate internal consistency cronbachs alpha093 adequate testretest reliability intraclass correlation coefficient095 area receiver operating characteristic curve detection inadequate health literacy 082 version consisting 18 items tested showed similar psychometric propertiesthe instrument developed showed good validity reliability sample brazilian older adults used research clinical settings screening inadequate health literacy