Validity and reliability of the Chinese version of the Health Literacy Scale Short-Form in the Chinese population

• Published in: BMC public health Vol. 23; no. 1; pp. 385 - 9
• Main Authors: Sun, Xiaonan, Lv, Ke, Wang, Fei, Ge, Pu, Niu, Yuyao, Yu, Wenli, Sun, Xinying, Ming, Wai-Kit, He, Miao, Wu, Yibo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 23.02.2023; BioMed Central; BMC
• Subjects: Age; Asian People; China; Chinese population; Coefficients; Disease prevention; Evaluation; Factor analysis; Gender; Goodness of fit; Health education; Health literacy; Health Literacy - methods; Health problems; Health promotion; Health surveys; Humans; Literacy; Mental health; Polls & surveys; Population; Psychometrics; Public health; Questionnaires; R&D; Reliability; Reliability analysis; Reliability aspects; Reproducibility of Results; Research & development; Research methodology; Sample size; Surveys; Surveys and Questionnaires; Translation; Translations and translating; Validation; Validity; China; Validation; Chinese population; Health literacy; Reliability

Health literacy is closely related to health status. Measuring public health literacy levels helps to warn of health status and manage health problems through timely interventions. The items of relevant evaluation tools are complex and numerous in China, and there is no recognized health literacy br...