Harm Peters, Ylva Holzhausen, Anja Czeskleba, Marwa Schumann
Defining a set of teaching EPAs tailored to an undergraduate medical curriculum using a modified Delphi approach
BMC medical education
health literacy hl crucial indicator health promotion diabetes care improvement available measurements mostly english study aimed translate validate 14item health literacy scale hls14 questionnaire english vietnamese patients diabetes vietnam translated hls14 vietnamese accordance world health organization guidelines conducted crosssectional survey among 571 outpatients type 2 diabetes using hls14 vietnamese version hls14 vn reliability validity tool assessed using cronbachs alpha composite reliability cr average variance extracted ave maximum shared variance msv confirmatory analysis conducted cronbachs alpha coefficients three subscales original version 0931 0810 0928 functional hl communicative hl critical hl respectively however ave critical hl 0488 improved 0516 removal one item communicative hl subscales revised 13item version hls13 vn cr 08 ave 05 msv less ave confirmatory analysis hls13 vn revealed acceptable fit comparative fit index 0983 goodnessoffit index 0963 root mean squared error approximation 0058 reliability validity hls13 vn confirmed tool suitable use clinical settings vietnam assess multidimensional hl patients type 2 diabetes