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Short Assessment of Health Literacy-Spanish & English (SAHL-S&E)

Characteristics

Domains assessed: Prose: Pronunciation, Information seeking: Interactive media navigation
Specific context: General
Validation sample population age: Adults: 18 to 64 years
Modes of administration in validation study: Paper and pencil, Face-to-face

Psychometrics

Number of items: 18
Sample size in validation study: 403
Administration Time (minutes): 2 minutes
Language of validated version: English

Main article reference

Lee, S.Y., Stucky, B.D., Lee, J.Y., Rozier, R.G., & Bender, D.E. (2010, August). Short assessment of health literacy-Spanish and English: a comparable test of health literacy for Spanish and English speakers. Health Serv Res, 45(4):1105-20.

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Corresponding author

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Shoou-Yih Lee
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Department of Health Administration, VCU College of Health Professions, 900 E. Leigh, Richmond, VA, United States of America
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Description

General medical word recognition and matching test, shortened (18 items)

Year Measure first Published: 2010

About This Measure

Categorical scoring: Yes
Scoring categories: 2 categories:

About the Validation of this Measure

Country where validated: United States of America
Content validity: Word recognition test: English version was correlated against the REALM and English TOFHLA.
Reliability notes: α = 0.89 English version
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