The Health Literacy Questionnaire (HLQ) at the patient-clinician interface: a qualitative study of what patients and clinicians mean by their HLQ scores

Abstract Background The Health Literacy Questionnaire (HLQ) has nine scales that each measure an aspect of the multidimensional construct of health literacy. All scales have good psychometric properties. However, it is the interpretations of data within contexts that must be proven valid, not just t...

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Main Authors: Melanie Hawkins, Stephen D Gill, Roy Batterham, Gerald R Elsworth, Richard H Osborne
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-04-01
Series:BMC Health Services Research
Subjects:
HLQ
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12913-017-2254-8