Development and validation of a functional health literacy instrument in the Philippines

Functional health literacy (FHL) involves skills in writing, reading, oral expression, comprehension, and numerical calculations to successfully function complete health-related tasks. This study aimed develop validate an instrument for measuring FHL the Philippines using a mixed-method design. FHL-5TEST is consisting of five questions developed consultation with local experts, translated major Philippine languages, underwent translation analysis, pretesting, cultural adaptation, validation. A cross-sectional was conducted random sample 15-70-year-old Filipino residents instrument. The demonstrated high internal consistency, Cronbach’s alpha 0.7690. Across different cut-off values, sensitivity specificity detecting limited ranged from 60.9% 86.0% 61.6% 97.2%, respectively. that valid reliable measure functional Philippines.