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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Feb 12.
Published in final edited form as: J Health Commun. 2014;19(0 2):267–284. doi: 10.1080/10810730.2014.936569

Table 2.

Reliability testing of the AHL-C (N=560)

Mean ± SD Range Reliability
coefficient
Item-total
correlation
Reading fluency1 14.59 ± 7.78 0–28 0.93 0.25–0.69
  Reading test 5.38 ± 3.83 0–12 0.89 0.50–0.68
  Clause test 7.06 ± 4.06 0–12 0.92 0.47–0.76
  Numeracy 2.14 ± 1.36 0–4 0.70 0.49–0.55
Prior knowledge2 5.27 ± 5.92 0–24 0.95 0.41–0.77
  Comprehension 3.24 ± 3.68 0–12 0.91 0.48–0.70
  Familiarity 2.04 ± 2.86 0–12 0.96 0.63–0.86
AHL-C total3 19.87 ± 12.52 0–52 0.96 0.18–0.69
1

Sum of Reading test, Clause test, and Numeracy.

2

Sum of Comprehension and Familiarity.

3

Sum of Reading fluency and Prior knowledge.