Development and Validation of a Brief Computer-Administered HIV-Related Health Literacy Scale (HIV-HL)

Author(s)

Raymond L. Ownby, Nova Southeastern UniversityFollow
Drenna Waldrop-Valverde
Patrick C. Hardigan, Nova Southeastern UniversityFollow
Joshua Caballero, Nova Southeastern UniversityFollow
Robin J. Jacobs, Nova Southeastern UniversityFollow
Amarilis Cruz Acevedo, Nova Southeastern UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

AIDS & Behavior

ISSN

1090-7165

Publication Date

2-2013

Abstract

Health literacy is related to a number of health status variables and has been associated with medication adherence in persons treated for HIV infection. Currently-available measures of health literacy require lengthy administration or have content or format limitations. In this paper we report the preliminary development and validation of a brief computer-administered health literacy test that includes content focused on medication adherence as well as questions based on a video simulation of an HIV-related clinical encounter. The measure shows significant relations with other measures of health literacy, HIV-related knowledge, and electronically-measured medication adherence. We also present receiver operating characteristic analyses that provide estimates of various scores' sensitivities and specifies so that the HIV-Related Health Literacy Scale can be used as a screening measure.

DOI

10.1007/s10461-012-0301-3

Volume

17

Issue

2

First Page

710

Last Page

718

NSUWorks Citation

Ownby, R. L., Waldrop-Valverde, D., Hardigan, P. C., Caballero, J., Jacobs, R. J., Acevedo, A. C. (2013). Development and Validation of a Brief Computer-Administered HIV-Related Health Literacy Scale (HIV-HL). AIDS & Behavior, 17(2), 710-718.
Available at: https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cps_facarticles/113