European Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire.

HLS-EU-Q47

What it measures

Health literacy as the competence to access, understand, appraise and apply health information across health care, disease prevention and health promotion.

Length and format

47 (16-item HLS-EU-Q16 and 6-item Q6 short forms). 4-pt perceived difficulty (very easy - very difficult) (self-report questionnaire)

Language versions

~40+ languages; the HLS19 consortium re-fielded it across Europe and beyond

Normative data

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Licence

copyrighted - author permission

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Reference

Sorensen, K., Van den Broucke, S., Pelikan, J. M., Fullam, J., Doyle, G., Slonska, Z., et al. (2013). Measuring health literacy in populations: Illuminating the design and development process of the HLS-EU-Q. BMC Public Health, 13, 948.