Establishing the HLS-M-Q18 short version of the European Health Literacy survey questionnaire for the Malaysian context

• Main Authors: Mohamad, Emma Mirza Wati, Kaundan, Manimaran Krishnan, Hamzah, Mohammad Rezal, Azlan, Arina Anis, Ayub, Suffian Hadi, Tham, Jen Sern, Ahmad, Abdul Latiff
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: BioMed Central 2020
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/88845/1/HLS.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/88845/; https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-020-08704-7bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-020-08704-7

Background: The European Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire (HLS-EU-Q47) is becoming a widely used tool to measure health literacy (HL), including in Malaysia. There are efforts to reduce the 47-item scale to parsimonious short item scales that still reflect the assumptions and requirements of the...