Measuring health literacy in community agencies: a Bayesian study of the factor structure and measurement invariance of the health literacy questionnaire (HLQ)

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 1-14

  Elsworth, Gerald R ^a   Beauchamp, Alison ^a   Osborne, Richard H ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bayesian structural equation modelling; BSEM; Health literacy; Health Literacy Questionnaire; HLQ; Measurement invariance

Indexed keywords

CONFIRMATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSTRUMENT VALIDATION; LANGUAGE; LEISURE; MALE; MANAGER; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; ORGANIZATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SCIENTIST; STATISTICAL MODEL; VICTORIA;

EID: 84995407505     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12913-016-1754-2     Document Type: Article

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