Table 2 Patient answers to SILS-I and SrRA-I questionnaires and score of NVS-I and STOFHLA-I items completed correctly
From: Cross-cultural validation of health literacy measurement tools in Italian oncology patients
Characteristics | N | (%) |
|---|---|---|
Single Item Literacy Screener (SILS-I) | ||
Never | 61 | (24.9) |
Rarely | 81 | (33.1) |
Sometimes | 74 | (30.2) |
Often | 20 | (8.2) |
Always | 9 | (3.7) |
Self-rated Reading Ability (SrRA-I) | ||
Excellent | 60 | (24.5) |
Good | 112 | (45.7) |
Adequate | 69 | (28.2) |
Low | 4 | (1.6) |
Very low | 0 | (0.0) |
NVS-I | ||
0–1 | 30 | (12.2) |
2–3 | 70 | (28.6) |
4–5 | 80 | (32.7) |
6 | 65 | (26.5) |
STOFHLA-I | ||
Numeracy items completed correctly | ||
0–1 | 8 | (3.3) |
2 | 22 | (9.0) |
3 | 54 | (22.0) |
4 | 161 | (65.7) |
Reading items completed correctly | ||
Passage Aa | ||
0–8 | 16 | (6.5) |
9–12 | 16 | (6.5) |
13–14 | 36 | (14.7) |
15–16 | 177 | (72.2) |
Passage Bb | ||
0–10 | 29 | (11.8) |
11–18 | 75 | (30.6) |
19–20 | 141 | (57.6) |