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Reliability and validity of health literacy indices
| Cronbach’s alpha | Pearson’s correlation coefficients | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CCHL | J-eHEALS | SRHa | MHI-5 | ||
| Health literacy indices | |||||
| GEN-HL | .97 | .62 | .51 | .18 | .26 |
| HC-HL | .92 | .57 | .47 | .12 | .21 |
| DP-HL | .93 | .55 | .44 | .17 | .24 |
| HP-HL | .94 | .57 | .49 | .22 | .26 |
| CCHL | .17 | .16 | |||
| J-eHEALS | .13 | .10b | |||
aSpearman’s correlation coefficients
All correlation coefficients are significant (P < .001 except for b P = .036)
