Psychometric properties of health literacy scale for covid survivors

10.30207/AHLA.202312.0022

Margaretha Sih Setija Utami；Endang Widyorini；Daniswara Agusta Wijaya；Benedicta Audrey Putri Trisnadewi；Josephine Ferren Heryanto

Covid survivors ； health literacy scale ； validity ； reliability

The Proceeding of the 9th AHLA International Health Literacy Conference: Health Literacy and Social Resilience

2023（2023 / 12 / 01）

23 - 23

英文

Background: There are many Health Literacy measures that have been used in previous studies. The Health Literacy scale for university students and the Health Literacy scale for headmasters for example have been analyzed to investigate their validity and reliability. Recently, research on the physical and psychological conditions of Covid survivors has been conducted among the Indonesian population. However, there was no information about the psychometric properties of the Health Literacy scale which was used in the study. Objective: The objective of the research was to investigate the validity and reliability of the Health Literacy scale for Covid survivors. Method: There were 248 participants consisting of 64 males and 184 females, with ages varying 14-67 years old. There were 168 singles, 73 were married, and 7 were widowed/divorced/separated in terms of marriage. Corrected item-total correlation was used to test the validity of this instrument Furthermore, Cronbach Alpha was conducted to test the reliability. We also conducted Exploratory Factor Analysis to discover groups of items. Results: The results of statistical analyses showed that coefficients of corrected item-total correlation ranged from 0.492-0.746 and coefficient of Cronbach Alpha Reliability was 0,926. The result of Exploratory Factor Analysis showed that there were two groups of the items. Group 1 consisted of items number 1 to 11, and group 2 consisted of items number 12 to16. Based on the theory, item number 12 was included in group 1 (Health Literacy short version). However, in this research, it was included in Digital Health Diet Literacy. Conclusion: Health Literacy Scale for Covid Survivors was a good scale because all items of the scale were valid, the reliability coefficient was high, and the result of Exploratory Factor Analysis showed that fifteen items grouped in concordance to the background theory, leaved out item number 12.