Table I.

EFA with Promax rotation on the COVID-19 Health Literacy scale: factors loadings and commonalities

	First factor	Second factor	Third factor	Final commonalities
Extraction/Communicative CoHL (EXCOM)
Item 1: I gather information from several sources. (Je rassemble des informations de plusieurs sources.)	0.22	0.78	0.29	0.61
Item 2: I extract the information I want. (J’extraie les informations que je souhaite.)	0.11	0.78	0.20	0.60
Item 3: I understand the information obtained. (Je comprends l’information obtenue.)	0.13	0.72	0.27	0.52
Application/Communicative CoHL (APPCOM)
Item 4: I share my opinion on this disease with my entourage (Je partage mon opinion sur cette maladie avec mon entourage.)	0.120	0.30	0.80	0.64
Item 5: I use the information obtained to change my daily life. (J’utilise les informations obtenues pour changer mon quotidien.)	0.21	0.25	0.84	0.70
Critical CoHL (CRITIC)
Item 6: I wonder if the information applies to my case. (Je me demande si les informations s’appliquent à mon cas.)	0.79	0.11	0.30	0.65
Item 7: I wonder if the information is credible. (Je me demande si les informations sont crédibles.)	0.88	0.15	0.07	0.79
Item 8: I check that the information is reliable. (Je vérifie que les informations sont fiables.)	0.801	0.24	0.15	0.65
Explained variance	32.36	19.64	12.67
Total variance explained (%)	64.68

Factor loading values higher than 0.7 are bolded.

These items were translated from French to be presented in Table I but this English version does not constitute the validated version.