Health Literacy Assessment Tool related to Antenatal Care (HLAT-ANC) for Pregnant Women: A Methodological Research from Turkey

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Emiral G. O., Unsal A., ARSLANTAŞ D.

KONURALP TIP DERGISI, cilt.14, sa.3, ss.533-543, 2022 (ESCI) identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 14 Sayı: 3
  • Basım Tarihi: 2022
  • Doi Numarası: 10.18521/ktd.1053510
  • Dergi Adı: KONURALP TIP DERGISI
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.533-543
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Health Literacy, Antenatal Care, Pregnancy, Methodological Research, VALIDATION, ADULTS
  • Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Objective: It is important to provide adequate antenatal care (ANC) for the lowest maternalfetal complications in pregnancy. The increase in the level of health literacy increases the quality of the ANC, compliance with the follow-up. To develop a tool to evaluate health Methods: This study is methodological research conducted between 15.02.2016-01.07.2018. "Health Literacy Assessment Tool related to Antenatal Care (HLAT-ANC)" was developed. Its validity-reliability was tested by item analysis, exploratory factor analysis (EFA), concurrent criterion validity, intergroup dissociation, and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), and determination of the Kuder-Richardson-20 (KR-20) coefficient. Results: The discrimination coefficients of the items in HLAT-ANC varied between 0.200.57 and factor loads between 0.34-0.85. It was determined that HLAT-ANC has KR-20>0.85 in each subdomain. The scores of fit criteria obtained in the confirmatory factor analysis were within acceptable limits. Conclusions: HLAT-ANC was found to be a valid and reliable scale.