Evaluation of Validity and Reliability of the Turkish Version of Health Literacy Scale

Aim: the aim of this research is to investigate the reliability and the validity of the turkish form of health literacy scale. method: research was carried out between december 2014 and january 2015 in a university medical faculty hospital. written permission from the hospital ethics commitee and from the patients were obtained . study consisted of 250 voluntary patients over 18 years old. content validity index, cronbach alpha, test-retest reliability, item total item correlation, confirmatory and principal factor analysis were used to evaluate the reliability and the validity. results: test-retest reliability coeff icient was r= .74, p≤ .05. alpha coeff icients for the scale was 0.92 and 0.62 - 0.79 for the subscales. item-total correlations were between .20 and .72 (p = .05). correlations between the scale and the subscales were 0.74 - 0.91(p<0.01). test-retest reliability coeff icient was found r= .74. mean score of the scale was 90.30±12.35 and for the subscales were between18.64 ± 3.17 and 30.08 ± 4.65. factor analysis yielded a scale with four subscales covering 25 items. conclusion: turkish version of health literacy scale was found a reliable and valid tool to measure health literacy among the turkish population.