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Evaluation on validity of health literacy measurement scale

의료정보이해능력 측정도구 척도의 타당성 평가

  • Received : 2013.01.31
  • Accepted : 2013.02.26
  • Published : 2013.03.31
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Abstract

As evaluating the health literacy is getting important, various measures for evaluation are being developed. Nevertheless, discussions about developing proper measures in Korean are still inactive. Therefore in this paper, we proposed Korean REALM (rapid estimate of adult literacy in medicine) measure that is composed of five point scale and investigated about its validity. As a result, we could find that Korean REALM measure which is composed of five point scale has high reliability, and that it formed one dimension as a result of factor analysis. Positive responses were lower than two point scale and correlation coefficient with NVS (the newest vital sign) appeared statistically significant. Therefore, we could conclude that Korean REALM measure that is composed of five point scale is a valid measurement. Furthermore, there were statistically significant differences between general students and department of nursing students about health literacy.

의료정보이해능력을 평가하는 것이 매우 중요한 시점이 도래함에 따라 이를 위한 다양한 측정도구들이 개발되어 오고 있다. 그러나 적절한 한국어판 측정도구 개발에 대한 논의는 활발하지 못한 실정이다. 본 연구에서는 5점 척도로 구성된 한국어판 REALM (rapid estimate of adult literacy in medicine) 측정도구를 제안하고 타당성에 대해서 알아보았다. 그 결과 5점 척도로 구성된 한국어판 측정도구의 신뢰도는 매우 높으며, 인자분석 결과 단일차원을 형성함을 알 수 있었다. 그리고 2점 척도에 비하여 긍정적인 응답이 적게 나타났으며, NVS (the newest vital sign)와의 상관계수를 구해본 바 통계적으로 유의하게 나타났다. 이에 5점 척도를 이용한 한국어판 REALM은 타당한 측도임을 알 수 있었다. 마지막으로 의료정보이해능력에 대하여 일반학생과 간호학과 학생 간에는 통계적으로 유의한 차이가 있었다.

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