Health insurance literacy (HIL) is related to healthcare access, yet there is no agreement about how best to measure HIL. Objectives: Contrast two HIL measures. First, evaluating their association with demographic characteristics, insurance type, and health status. Second, comparing how these ...
The Health Insurance Literacy Measure (HILM), a self-assessment measure that was constructed based on formative research and stakeholder guidance. The conceptual basis of the measure is the Health Insurance Literacy conceptual model by Paez et al. (Paez et al.2014), which was previously described....
Recent examples in this branch of development include the European Health Literacy Survey, the Health Literacy Questionnaire, a series of single-item screeners, a health literacy measure for Japanese adults, and another in Dutch (Chew, Bradley, & Boyko, 2004; Chew et al., 2008; Jordan et al...
health insurance coverage was recruited to participate in an online survey between February 22 and 23, 2016.Main Outcomes and MeasuresThe validated 21-item Health Insurance Literacy Measure (HILM) assessed individuals' self-rated confidence in selecting and using health insurance (score range, 0-84,...
literacy [40]. One instrument developed to measurehealth and financial literacyaddresses the link between literacy and decision making in the context of health related and financial factors. It examines health literacy by using 9 items dealing with health knowledge regarding health insurance, burden of...
This study aimed to explain the relationships among health literacy, health behavior, and health status, using a newly developed skills-based measure of health literacy regarding respiratory infectious diseases. This instrument was designed to measure individuals' reading, understanding, and calculating abi...
The concept grew out of attempts to conceptualize and measure literacy more broadly. The National Adult Literacy Survey (NALS) assessed the breadth and depth of adult literacy in the population by analyzing levels of educational attainment needed to accomplish common tasks presumed to be essential to...
However, these scales have too much content, especially the “National Residents Health Literacy Monitoring Questionnaire” has 80 items, which generally take a long time to measure, often affect the enthusiasm of the assessment population, and limit the large-scale application to a certain extent ...
As an exemplar, the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) was developed and validated to enable researchers to measure self-reported physical activity in a uniform manner across countries [9]. Parallel to the IPAQ, developing a multi-lingual health literacy assessment tool would allow ...
health literacy research has focused on attributes of health care organizations. We examined whether the attribute of individuals' experiences with front desk staff, patient engagement through bringing questions to a doctor visit, and health literacy skills were related to two patient-reported outcomes....