Table 1.
Domain | Description |
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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) |
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).