Development and validation of the high blood pressure-focused health literacy scale

Patient Education and Counseling

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 165-170

  Kim, Miyong T ^a,b,c   Song, Hee Jung ^a   Han, Hae Ra ^a   Song, Youngshin ^a   Nam, Soohyun ^a   Nguyen, Tam Hieu ^a   Lee, Ho Chang Benjamin ^c   Kim, Kim B ^d  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Korean Resource Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Health literacy; High blood pressure; Validation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTENT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATIONAL MODEL; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; KUDER RICHARDSON COEFFICIENT; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DESIGN; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PSYCHOMETRY; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN AMERICANS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84860369950     PISSN: 07383991     EISSN: 18735134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2011.09.005     Document Type: Article

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