Measuring health literacy combining performance-based and self-assessed measures: the roles of age, educational level and financial resources in predicting health literacy skills. A cross-sectional study conducted in Florence (Italy)

Objective The objective was to compare the results of performance-based and self-assessed measures of health literacy (HL) and to evaluate the contribution of their joint use in assessing some HL antecedents.Design This was a cross-sectional study.Setting The study was conducted on the general popul...

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Main Authors: Chiara Lorini, Vieri Lastrucci, Diana Paolini, Guglielmo Bonaccorsi, Elisabetta Alti, Sergio Baglioni, Leonardo Bellino, Niccolò Berzi, Jacopo Bianchi, Giuseppe Burgio, Alessandro Bussotti, Marco Del Riccio, Angela Galdiero, Alessandro Grassi, Arrigo Lombardi, Sarah Mantwill ChiaraLorini, Federico Manzi, Alessandro Mereu, Donatella Messina, Chiara Milani, Marco Targonato DianaPaolini, Marco Toccafondi, Gino Sartor, Virginia Vettori, Martina Donzellini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMJ Publishing Group 2020-10-01
Series:BMJ Open
Online Access:https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/10/10/e035987.full