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. 2020 Dec 30;73(1):100–109. doi: 10.1002/acr.24480

Table 1.

Health Literacy Questionnaire domains

Domain Description
Part I*
1 Feeling understood and supported by health care providers (4 items)
2 Having sufficient information to manage my health (4 items)
3 Actively managing my health (5 items)
4 Having social support for health (5 items)
5 Critical appraisal of health information (5 items)
Part II
6 Ability to actively engage with health care providers (5 items)
7 Navigating the health care system (6 items)
8 Ability to find good health information (5 items)
9 Understanding health information well enough to know what to do (5 items)
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Part I measures level of agreement with items on a 4‐point Likert scale: strongly disagree (1), disagree (2), agree (3), and strongly agree (4).

Part II measures difficulty experienced with items on a 5‐point Likert scale: always difficult/cannot do (1), usually difficult (2), sometimes difficult (3), usually easy (4), and always easy (5).