Validity of the evidence of the Health Literacy Scale and eHeals for older people

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ID5335634
AuthorsLeonardo Pestillo De Oliveira (0000-0001-5278-0676, Universidade Cesumar, Brasil), Rosane Clys Barros Souza (0000-0002-0452-0287, Universidade Cesumar, Brasil), Josiane Kelly De Barros (0000-0003-1943-6608, Universidade Cesumar, Brasil), Giovana Mioto De Moura (0000-0001-8515-7581, Universidade Cesumar, Brasil), Mirian Ueda Yamaguchi (0000-0001-5065-481X, Universidade Cesumar, Brasil)
Year2022
Volume46
Issuespe6
Pages135-147
Publication date2022-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSaúde em Debate (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0103-1104 • E-ISSN: 2358-2898
PublisherFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/0103-11042022e612i
OpenAlexW4323345406
LanguageEN
References cited28

This article aims to adapt cross-culturally two instruments (Health Literacy and Digital Health Literacy) for use with older people and to assess their psychometric properties, through a study with a descriptive, quantitative, and cross-sectional method, carried out with 379 older person participants, who answered the following questionnaires: a) sociodemographic, b) Health Literacy Scale and c) electronic Health Literacy Scale (eHEALS). The analyses performed were exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, the convergent validity of the factors that were estimated through the Average Variance Extracted and Composite Reliability. The result was the presentation of instruments with adequate factor loadings (> 0.4), in addition to adequate reliability (> 0.7). The external validity tested by the correlation between the two instruments showed a statistically significant, positive, and moderate correlation (r = 0.35; p<0.001), presenting evidence of validity and consistency in the Health Literacy Scale for use with older people and attesting to the eHEALS instrument adequate reliability and validity for this population

Confirmatory factor analysis · Construct validity · Convergent validity · Exploratory factor analysis · Health care · Health literacy · Internal consistency · Literacy · Psychometrics · Reliability (semiconductor) · Scale (ratio) · Statistics · Structural equation modeling · Validity · Clinical Psychology · Health Education and Validation · Health Literacy and Information Accessibility · Medicine · Mobile Health and mHealth Applications · Psychology · Gerontology

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