Measuring Health Literacy in Romania: Validation of the HLS-EU-Q16 Survey Questionnaire

International Journal of Public Health

卷:67

Madalina Adina Coman¹  Alina Ioana Forray¹  Razvan Mircea Chereches¹  Stephan Van den Broucke² 

[1] Department of Public Health, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania;

[2] Psychological Sciences Research Institute, Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium;

关键词: health literacy;    HLS-EU-Q16;    Romania;    measurement;    validation;   

DOI  :  10.3389/ijph.2022.1604272

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Objective: Empirical data on health literacy (HL) for Romania is almost inexistent. The present study aimed to validate the HLS-EU-Q16 questionnaire for the Romanian population and explore the predictors of HL in the North-West Region of the country.Methods: A non-experimental, cross-sectional study was conducted between March and November 2019 on a representative, stratified random sample of 1,622 participants from the North-Western Region of Romania. Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA), Principal component analysis (PCA), Pearson correlations, and Chronbach’s Alpha were used to validate the scale. Linear regressions were conducted to assess the determinants of health literacy.Results: Results obtained for the HL scale support its factorial component and reliability, with a Cronbach’s alpha of α = 0.84. Age, gender, education and self-reported health status were identified as determinants of HL.Conclusion: Study findings indicate that the Romanian version of HLS-EU-Q16 is psychometrically sound and comparable to the original version. These results provide the first validated tool to measure HL in Romanian and the first population level data for Romania.

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