Psychometric properties of Persian version of diabetes health literacy scale (DHLS) in patients with type 2 diabetes

Table 6 Descriptive statistics of the Persian version of DHLS

Subscales	Item	Range	Cronbach’s alpha coefficients	McDonald’s omega coefficients	Intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC)	95% confidence interval		P-value
Subscales	Item	Range	Cronbach’s alpha coefficients	McDonald’s omega coefficients	Intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC)	Lower bound	Upper bound	P-value
Factor 1: Informational health literacy	6	6–30	0.865	0.871	0.976	0.950	0.989	< 0.001
Factor 2: Numerate health literacy	5	5–25	0.879	0.881	0.921	0.834	0.962	< 0.001
Factor 3: Communicative health literacy	3	3–15	0.784	0.800	0.911	0.813	0.957	< 0.001
Total diabetes health literacy scale (DHLS)	14	14–70	0.919	0.922	0.957	0.910	0.980	< 0.001

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