Table 3 Percentage of respondents giving each response for all HL-SDH items
From: Development of the health literacy on social determinants of health questionnaire in Japanese adults
Items | Very easy (%) | Fairly Easy (%) | Fairly Difficult (%) | Very difficult (%) | Don’t know/Not applicable (%) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dimensions/domain | On a scale from very easy to very difficult, how easy would you say it is to:… | ||||||
Q1 | Access/the social gradient | Find out about the impact of social position on health | 1.1 | 14.9 | 49.2 | 28.0 | 6.7 |
Q2 | Access/early life | Find information related to the impact of the daily life of a mother on the growth of the child to be born | 4.3 | 28.8 | 43.3 | 19.3 | 4.3 |
Q3 | Access/social exclusion | Find someone who is isolated from society and whose health is failing | 2.6 | 12.3 | 41.5 | 40.8 | 2.8 |
Q4 | Access/unemployment | Find information on the relation between unemployment and stress | 3.0 | 20.7 | 49.8 | 23.7 | 2.8 |
Q5 | Access/social support | Find out the support required by someone in trouble in the community or workplace | 2.9 | 18.5 | 49.9 | 27.1 | 1.6 |
Q6 | Access/addiction | Find out smoking is not going to eliminate the cause of stress | 8.4 | 30.2 | 41.4 | 16.1 | 3.9 |
Q7 | Access/food | Find information about the relationship between dietary changes and health | 9.1 | 40.4 | 38.0 | 11.7 | 0.7 |
Q8 | Understand/the social gradient | Understand that the lesser the income the greater the tendency to become ill | 7.3 | 31.0 | 45.8 | 11.9 | 3.9 |
Q9 | Understand/early life | Understand that abuse suffered as a child has an impact even when one becomes an adult | 19.3 | 43.4 | 27.0 | 9.9 | 0.5 |
Q10 | Understand/social exclusion | Understand that being isolated from the community and workplace impacts health | 15.0 | 41.8 | 33.7 | 8.2 | 1.3 |
Q11 | Understand/work | Understand that determining how to proceed working on one’s own is related to stress | 11.1 | 40.2 | 37.7 | 9.9 | 1.2 |
Q12 | Understand/unemployment | Understand that work that is not stable becomes a huge stress | 24.2 | 41.9 | 26.0 | 7.7 | 0.2 |
Q13 | Understand/social capital | Understand that widening income disparities dilute the ties between people | 14.4 | 37.3 | 35.5 | 10.5 | 2.3 |
Q14 | Understand/addiction | Understand that in a society with a high level of stress, there is a tendency toward dependency on drugs | 16.4 | 39.6 | 33.6 | 8.8 | 1.7 |
Q15 | Appraise/the social gradient | Judge what inequities exist in society in view of living a healthy life | 5.2 | 23.2 | 50.9 | 19.0 | 1.7 |
Q16 | Appraise/social exclusion | Judge what kind of government services should be supplied to those really in need of support | 2.2 | 16.1 | 46.7 | 33.6 | 1.4 |
Q17 | Appraise/work | Judge what level of burden of work has on health | 2.9 | 22.1 | 52.2 | 21.7 | 1.1 |
Q18 | Appraise/social support | Judge what kind of support should be supplied to someone in trouble in the community or workplace | 1.7 | 15.3 | 52.7 | 29.6 | 0.7 |
Q19 | Appraise/social capital | Judge how neighbors should help each other | 3.1 | 18.2 | 53.7 | 24.2 | 0.8 |
Q20 | Appraise/food | Judge the merits and demerits of the spread of processed foods | 3.4 | 28.2 | 47.9 | 19.7 | 0.8 |
Q21 | Appraise/transport | Judge the kind of impact that motorization has on health | 4.2 | 29.8 | 50.5 | 14.1 | 1.3 |
Q22 | Apply/social gradient | Cooperate in the creation of a fair society in which everyone can live a healthy life | 3.7 | 18.2 | 47.1 | 29.0 | 2.0 |
Q23 | Apply/early life | Involve oneself in politics and public administration to help small children live a healthy life | 1.6 | 13.4 | 45.8 | 36.5 | 2.8 |
Q24 | Apply/early life | Participate in childcare support activities | 3.2 | 18.5 | 46.5 | 24.9 | 6.9 |
Q25 | Apply/social exclusion | Participate in activities to eliminate poverty | 1.4 | 11.8 | 46.7 | 36.7 | 3.4 |
Q26 | Apply/work | Involve oneself in politics and public administration to protect the health of workers both institutionally and legally | 1.4 | 10.3 | 43.6 | 42.4 | 2.3 |
Q27 | Apply/work | Approach the manager or the employer regarding rewards that do not match efforts done at work | 1.8 | 11.6 | 41.9 | 41.3 | 3.5 |
Q28 | Apply/unemployment | Participate in activities to increase employment and vocational training opportunities | 2.0 | 14.9 | 51.1 | 28.5 | 3.4 |
Q29 | Apply/social support | Participate in activities that support an individual, including his or her family, who is in trouble in the community or workplace | 2.2 | 13.5 | 50.2 | 32.1 | 2.0 |
Q30 | Apply/social capital | Participate in activities to spread the importance of ties with people for health | 2.6 | 19.3 | 50.9 | 26.4 | 0.8 |
Q31 | Apply/addiction | Involve oneself in politics and public administration to make it easier for persons who have used illegal drugs to receive treatment | 1.3 | 10.2 | 43.3 | 41.9 | 3.2 |
Q32 | Apply/food | Participate in activities that promote a healthy diet | 3.2 | 26.5 | 48.0 | 21.4 | 0.8 |
Q33 | Apply/transport | Involve oneself in politics and public administration to seek road priority for pedestrians and cyclists | 1.6 | 15.9 | 48.0 | 33.1 | 1.4 |