Torsten Michael Bollweg, Orkan Okan, Alexandra Maria Freţian, Janine Bröder, Olga Maria Domanska, Susanne Jordan, Dirk Bruland, Paulo Pinheiro, Ullrich Bauer
Adapting the European Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire for Fourth-Grade Students in Germany: Validation and Psychometric Analysis
Health literacy research and practice
abstract three hundred fifty randomly selected primary school children completed psychometric psychophysical test battery ascertain relationships reading ability sensitivity dynamic visual auditory stimuli first analysis examined whether sensitivity visual coherent motion auditory frequency resolution differed groups children different literacy cognitive skills tasks main effect literacy group found absence main effect intelligence interaction factors assess potential confounding effects attention second analysis frequency discrimination data conducted performance catch trials entered covariate significant effects covariate literacy skill found main effect intelligence interaction intelligence literacy skill regression analyses conducted determine magnitude relationship sensory literacy skills entire sample visual motion sensitivity auditory sensitivity frequency differences robust predictors childrens literacy skills orthographic phonological skills copyright 2002 john wiley amp sons ltd