Validation of the French version of the Functional, Communicative and Critical Health Literacy scale (FCCHL)

Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes

Table 2 Factor structure of the FCCHL scale. (n = 781, Training sample)

		Factor			Communality
		1	2	3
Functional health literacy
FCCHL1	Find characters that I cannot read	0.75	−0.01	0.08	0.66
FCCHL2	Feel that the print is too small for me to read	0.59	−0.09	−0.08	0.43
FCCHL3	Feel that the content is too difficult for me to understand	0.93	0.03	0.02	0.88
FCCHL4	Feel that it takes a long time to read them	0.70	0.02	−0.01	0.50
FCCHL5	Need someone to help me read them	0.66	0.03	−0.05	0.46
Communicative health literacy
FCCHL6	Collect information from various sources	0.02	0.78	−0.04	0.66
FCCHL7	Extract the information I want	−0.03	0.71	−0.03	0.52
FCCHL8	Understand the obtained information	0.24	0.62	0.06	0.48
FCCHL9	Communicate my opinion about my illness	−0.08	0.73	0.08	0.46
FCCHL10	Apply the obtained information to my daily life	0.02	0.68	0.04	0.45
Critical health literacy
FCCHL11	Consider whether the information is applicable to me	−0.02	0.23	−0.71	0.73
FCCHL12	Consider whether the information is credible	−0.01	−0.07	−0.97	0.86
FCCHL13	Check whether the information is valid and reliable	0.01	0.09	−0.68	0.54
FCCHL14	Collect information to make my healthcare decisions	−0.04	0.42	−0.27	0.37