A. Jovi -Vrane|V. Bjegovi -Mikanovi|Jelena Marinkovi|D. Vukovi
Evaluation of a health literacy screening tool in primary care patients: evidence from Serbia
Institute of Social Sciences|University of Belgrade|Institute of Social Sciences
improving health literacy skills important patient comprehension healthrelated topics ability attend medical problems promoting health literacy pivotal policy maintaining promoting health objective present study translate test functional health literacy adults tofhla long short versions serbian evaluate translated crossculturally adapted questionnaires serbian primary care patients translated tofhla questionnaires administered 120 patients additionally selfcompleted questionnaire used descriptive inferential statistics measured mean score tofhla 7349 median 78 sd 1794 range 0100 mean score short test functional health literacy adults stofhla 2928 median 32 sd 616 range 036 sex age education selfperceived health presence chronic disease associated health literacy scores internal consistency cronbachs alpha 073 tofhla numeracy subset 095 reading comprehension 094 tofhla 090 stofhla pearson correlation tofhla stofhla 089 area curve two tests 079 95 ci 06020817 serbian translated versions tohfla questionnaires offer valid measures functional health literacy differences reliability validity short long tofhla forms