Objective To construct a
human health literacy indicator system for prevention of
parasitic diseases based on
Delphi method.
Methods Based on
literature reviews and expert interviews, a
questionnaire was designed and a two-round Delphi
consultation was performed. A
human health literacy indicator system for prevention of
parasitic diseases was constructed according to the deletion criteria and experts’ advice. Results A total of 14 experts completed the two-round
consultation. The second-round authority coefficients were 0.91 to 0.96 for the first-level
indicators, 0.87 to 0.97 for the second-level
indicators and 0.86 to 0.97 for the third-level
indicators. A
human health literacy indicator system for prevention of
parasitic diseases was constructed with the main framework of basic
knowledge and
awareness, healthy
behaviors, and healthy skills, which contained 3 first-level
indicators, 12 second-level
indicators and 48 third-level
indicators. Among the three first-level
indicators, basic
knowledge and
awareness had the highest weighting coefficient (0.336 5), followed by healthy
behaviors (0.334 9), and healthy skills had the lowest weighting coefficient (0.328 6). The three
secondary-level
indicators with the highest combined
weights included
awareness of the
epidemic status (0.088 2),
awareness of the
resource of
infection (0.085 8) and basic
awareness of
parasitic diseases (0.085 5). Conclusion A
human health literacy indicator system for prevention of
parasitic diseases is preliminarily constructed, which provides insights into the development of
health literacy evaluation tools for prevention of
parasitic diseases in the new era.