Health Literacy Measure for Adolescents (HELMA): Development and Psychometric Properties

Shahla Ghanbari1, Ali Ramezankhani1, Ali Montazeri2

  • 1Department of Public Health, School of Health, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

Plos One
|February 17, 2016
PubMed
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