Tuyen Van Duong|?ltyn Aringazina|Gaukhar Baisunova|Nurjanah Nurjanah|Thuc Van Pham|Khue M. Pham|Tien Quang Truong|Kien Trung Nguyen|Win Myint Oo|Emma Mohamad|Tin Tin Su|Hui-Ling Huang|Kristine Sørensen|Jürgen M. Pelikan|Stephan Van den Broucke|Peter Chang
Measuring health literacy in Asia: Validation of the HLS-EU-Q47 survey tool in six Asian countries
Taipei Medical University|National Health Research Institutes|Kazakhstan Medical University|Kazakh National Medical University|Universitas Dian Nuswantoro|Hai phong University Of Medicine and Pharmacy|Hai Phong University|Hai phong University Of Medicine and Pharmacy|Hai Phong University|Hanoi School Of Public Health|Hanoi School Of Public Health|University Of Medicine 1 Yangon|National University of Malaysia|University of Malaya|Yuanpei University|Maastricht University|Ludwig Boltzmann Institut Health Promotion Research|University of Vienna|UCLouvain|Taipei Medical University|Taipei Hospital
health literacy increasingly recognized one important social determinants health however appropriate comprehensive assessment tool available many asian countries study validates comprehensive health literacy survey tool european health literacy questionnaire hlseuq47 general public several asian countries crosssectional survey based multistage random sampling target countries total 10024 participants aged 15 years recruited 20132014 indonesia kazakhstan malaysia myanmar taiwan vietnam questionnaire translated local languages measure general health literacy three domains evaluate validity tool countries data analyzed confirmatory factor analysis internal consistency analysis regression analysis questionnaire shown good construct validity satisfactory goodnessoffit data hypothetical model three health literacy domains high internal consistency cronbachs alpha 090 satisfactory itemscale convergent validity itemscale correlation 040 floorceiling effects countries general health literacy index score significantly associated level education p 0001 0011 perceived social status p 0001 0016 evidence knowngroup validity hlseuq47 satisfactory comprehensive health literacy survey tool use asia