Health Literacy Questionnaire(English)

• has nine scales that each measure an aspect of the multidimensional construct of health literacy. All scales have good psychometric properties. Can act as an adjunct to clinical practice to help clinicians understand a patient’s health literacy challenges and strengths early in a clinical encounter. Importantly, clinicians can use the HLQ to detect differences between their own perspectives about a patient’s health literacy and the patient’s perspective, and to initiate discussion to explore this. Provision of training to better detect these differences may assist clinicians to provide improved care. WHO: health literacy is described as: ‘… the cognitive and social skills that determine the motivation and ability of individuals to gain access to, understand and use information in ways which promote and maintain good health’
• WHO
• Health care, Questionnaire, Cognitive function, Social aspects
• https://doi.org…2913-017-2254-8