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Table 2 Requirements for concordance, discordance and unclear categories

From: The Health Literacy Questionnaire (HLQ) at the patient-clinician interface: a qualitative study of what patients and clinicians mean by their HLQ scores

 

Requirement 1

Requirement 2

Requirement 3

Concordance

Patient’s narrative supports the HLQ score

Clinician’s narrative supports the HLQ score

Patient and clinician HLQ scores are on the same side of the response options scale

Discordance

Patient’s narrative supports the HLQ score

Clinician’s narrative supports the HLQ score

HLQ scores are on opposite sides of the response options scale

Unclear

Patient’s narrative does not support HLQ score or…

…clinician’s narrative does not support HLQ score or…

…patient or clinician changed the score during interview.