Adelia Karla Falcão Soares, Caio Heinrich Correia de Sá, Rayanne da Silva Lima, Mirelly da Silva Barros, Maria Wanderleya de Lavor Coriolano-Marinus
Communication in health care from the experiences of Nursing students and teachers: contributions to health literacy
Ciencia & saude coletiva
study aims introduce development psychometric properties brief generic cancer knowledge scale patients bcks10 includes different elements knowledge skills terminology diagnosis treatment prevention numeracy although cancer knowledge central dimension cancer literacy previous studies either investigated cancer knowledge among general population among patients specific cancer diagnosis qualitative interviews n 11 quantitative survey n 267 among peer support group leaders conducted develop bcks10 literature screening n 500 patients cancer recruited across germany october 2020 february 2021 construct validity item discrimination reliability tested anova revealed significant differences knowledge score various cancer sites significant positive association education negative association migration background trend supporting construct validity terms item discrimination corrected itemtotal correlation 8 10 items threshold 03 cronbachs alpha 068 revealed acceptable internal consistency tool brief consists different dimensions overall findings show bcks10 suitable tool briefly assess cancer knowledge among patients independent cancer site however surveys conducted validate psychometric properties enhance bcks10