Table 3.

Exploratory Factor Analysis

Items of the HLS-Child-Q15-FR	Factor 1	Factor 2
Health care	-	-
To take your medicine in the way adults ask you? (Q71)	0.621	-
To do what your parents tell you to get again in good health? (Q70)	0.592	-
To understand what the doctor says to you? (Q64)	0.567	-
To understand when and how you should take your medicine when you are ill? (Q63)	0.540	-
To know how to take care of yourself when you have a cold? (Q59)	0.464	-
To understand what vaccines are used for? (Q66)	0.430	-
To understand what your parents tell you about your health? (Q67)	0.398	0.244
To understand why you sometimes have to go to the doctor even though you are not ill? (Q65)	0.383	0.170
To respect what you learned about road safety regulations? (Q72)	0.329	0.162
To understand why sometimes you need to take a rest? (Q68)	0.314	0.147
Primary prevention	-	-
To know if a meal is balanced? (Q62)	-	0.633
To eat healthily? (Q73)	-	0.629
To know how not to get too fat or too thin? (Q60)	-	0.543
Is it easy or difficult for you to know what to do to stay in good health? (Q69)	0.186	0.512
To know how to relax, to loosen up, in the best possible way? (Q61)	0.173	0.195

Note. HLS-Child-Q15-FR = Health Literacy Survey Child Questionnaire-15 French.

^aItems translated from French.