Measuring Health Literacy in Romania: Validation of the HLS-EU-Q16 Survey Questionnaire
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...
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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj.art-3f453b3eef07486b815803867ce276c42022-12-22T01:30:15ZengFrontiers Media S.A.International Journal of Public Health1661-85642022-02-016710.3389/ijph.2022.16042721604272Measuring Health Literacy in Romania: Validation of the HLS-EU-Q16 Survey QuestionnaireMadalina Adina Coman0Alina Ioana Forray1Stephan Van den Broucke2Razvan Mircea Chereches3Department of Public Health, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaDepartment of Public Health, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaPsychological Sciences Research Institute, Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, BelgiumDepartment of Public Health, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaObjective: 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.https://www.ssph-journal.org/articles/10.3389/ijph.2022.1604272/fullhealth literacyHLS-EU-Q16Romaniameasurementvalidation |
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| title | Measuring Health Literacy in Romania: Validation of the HLS-EU-Q16 Survey Questionnaire |
| title_full | Measuring Health Literacy in Romania: Validation of the HLS-EU-Q16 Survey Questionnaire |
| title_fullStr | Measuring Health Literacy in Romania: Validation of the HLS-EU-Q16 Survey Questionnaire |
| title_full_unstemmed | Measuring Health Literacy in Romania: Validation of the HLS-EU-Q16 Survey Questionnaire |
| title_short | Measuring Health Literacy in Romania: Validation of the HLS-EU-Q16 Survey Questionnaire |
| title_sort | measuring health literacy in romania validation of the hls eu q16 survey questionnaire |
| topic | health literacy HLS-EU-Q16 Romania measurement validation |
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