An Innovative Tool to Assess the Literary Parameters of a Health Story-Literary Devices Assessment Scoring' (LDAS) Tool
An Innovative Tool to Assess the Literary Parameters of a Health Story-Literary Devices Assessment Scoring' (LDAS) Tool
Iftikhar Alam1*, Sumbal Ali1, Anwar Ali Shad2, Aneela Tahmeed1, Hafsa Nawaz1, Shumail Bakht1 and Muhammad Farooq3*
ABSTRACT
Health story development is an emerging technique that seeks behavioral changes in the patients to achieve health targets. There are many challenges one may face while developing a story for health communication. A big challenge usually faced by a health story writer or developer while compiling the story maybe being evidence-based vs. staying true to the story. While understanding literary elements are essential for a health story and while there are numerous tools available to evaluate the scientific evidence presented in health story, no tool is available that can assess the literary parameters of a health story. Therefore, the present study aimed to develop and validate an innovative tool that may be used for the assessment of a health story for its literary attributes. Following a comprehensive literature search, an initial twenty-one-item scale was developed and was subjected for content validation to a panel of experts (n=30). The pre-validation version of the scale contained 21 items. However, the final version of the scale was reduced to 15 items as six items were removed and/or merged together. Content validity index showed that the “item content validity-index” (I-CVI) and the “scale content-validity index” (S-CVI) were ≥ 80% each. In addition, the Cronbach’s alpha value was 0.8. These results suggest a satisfactory reliability co-efficient of the scale. Based on I-CVI, S-CVI and Cronbach’s alpha values, the scale that was developed and validated in the present study for the assessment of literary quality of the health story is a reliable scale.
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