Josefin Wångdahl|Karuna Dahlberg|Maria Jaensson|Ulrica Nilsson
Arabic Version of the Electronic Health Literacy Scale in Arabic-Speaking Individuals in Sweden: Prospective Psychometric Evaluation Study
Karolinska Institutet|Uppsala University|Örebro University|Örebro University|Karolinska Institutet|Karolinska University Hospital
background health information often communicated internet vital end user range digital skills well understand information promote health valid reliable 8item instrument electronic health literacy scale eheals evaluates skills number arabicspeaking people migrating sweden parts world increasing due unstable military political situations countries origin poor health limited health literacy described population sweden still knowledge arabic version eheals tested validity reliability thus arabicspeaking populations sweden cannot included studies measuring ehealth literacy support equal treatment health care objective aim study translate adapt original english eheals version arabic evaluate psychometric properties methods eheals rigorously translated adapted evaluated content validity conducted prospective psychometric evaluation natively arabicspeaking participants living sweden construct validity factor structure internal consistency testretest reliability evaluated using spearman correlation principal component analysis cronbach weighted quadratic cohen respectively results study population consisted arabicspeaking participants n298 age mean 418 years sd 105 construct validity supported weak moderate correlations principal component factor analysis revealed onefactor structure internal consistency high cronbach 092 testretest reliability acceptable weighted quadratic cohen 076 evaluation indicated ehealth literacy threshold values dichotomized limited sufficient rather trichotomized inadequate problematic sufficient conclusions arabic version eheals unidimensional scale valid reliable measuring ehealth literacy among natively arabicspeaking people sweden found acceptable feasible general population