Jung-Min Kwak|Ju Hee Kim
Psychometric Properties of the Korean Version of the Environmental Health Literacy Scale
Kyung Hee University|Kyung Hee University
environmental health literacy ehl scale evaluates mediaspecific general ehl levels three domains knowledge attitude behavior study aimed adapt ehl scale developed lichtveld et al korean language kehl scale verify reliability validity survey data collected 492 adults 1965 years residing korea study process included translation procedures content validity verification pretesting actual survey statistical analysis validation selection final items scalelevel content validity index 092 one item removed multiple exploratory factor analyses condensed kehl 2 factors 38 items environmental health knowledge attitude factor 14 items measures information feelings thoughts environmental health environmental health behavior factor 24 items comprises behaviors responding environmental health construct validity criterion discriminant validity verified using confirmatory factor analysis goodness fit cfi 0901 tli 0863 gfi 0923 nfi 0862 rmsea 008 internal consistency reliability test results showed cronbachs 081 total items study first introduce ehl korea also presents validated evaluation tool kehl expected elucidate ehl levels korea future ehl scale enhanced using tool