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[Health literacy: psychometric behaviour of the HLS-EU-Q16 questionnaire]
Andreu Nolasco1, Carmen Barona2, Nayara Tamayo-Fonseca1
1Unidad Mixta de Investigación para el Análisis de las Desigualdades en Salud y la Mortalidad FISABIO-Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, España.
Objective:
To describe the psychometric properties and the level of understanding of the health literacy questionnaire HLS-EU-Q16 in Spanish, implemented in the Health Survey of the Valencian Region (Spain) of 2016.
Method:
Descriptive cross-sectional study to describe understanding, reliability, structure and internal consistency of the questionnaire on a sample of 5485 subjects, aged 15 or over, who participated in the survey.
Results:
The percentages of understanding without much difficulty were high. Reliability was high (intraclass correlation coefficient:.923; kappa:.814). The factorial analysis suggested a unifactorial structure (79.1% of variability explained by the common factor), with high factorial loads. The consistency was high (Cronbach's alpha: 0.982).
Conclusions:
The HLS-EU-Q16 in Spanish is a short, adequate and valid instrument to measure the level of health literacy in the population.
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