Development and validation of a new instrument for testing functional health literacy in Japanese adults

Nursing and Health Sciences

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 201-208

  Nakagami, Katsuyuki ^a   Yamauchi, Toyoaki ^b   Noguchi, Hiroyuki ^b   Maeda, Tohru ^c   Nakagami, Tomoko ^d  

^a YOKKAICHI NURSING AND MEDICAL CARE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KINJO GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d SUGIYAMA JOGAKUEN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Functional health literacy; Instrument development; Japanese functional health literacy test; JFHLT; Outpatients

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENT; PROCEDURES; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VALIDATION STUDY; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENTS; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84903274960     PISSN: 14410745     EISSN: 14422018     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nhs.12087     Document Type: Article

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