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Fig. 2

From: Measurement properties of the Health Literacy Questionnaire (HLQ) among older adults who present to the emergency department after a fall: a Rasch analysis

Fig. 2

Person-item threshold distribution graphs depicting targeting for the nine HLQ scales. A positive mean person location for all nine scales (0.89–2.99) suggests that participants found some of the items easy to endorse. A measurement gap is evident for all nine HLQ scales - no items match participants’ health literacy level at approximately the one to two logit point (mid to high HLQ score) despite a number of participants at this ability level for each scale

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