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The paper concludes that an appreciation of work undertaken in a range of different disciplines, such as media studies, medical sociology, and evidence-based medicine can enhance our understanding of the critical health literacy construct and help us understand its usefulness as a social asset which helps individuals towards a critical engagement with health information.

The hierarchical three-factor QLT model was found to have relatively good fit for the sample of elementary-aged students, and all inter-factor relationships were found to be consistent with the proposed theoretical model of the quantitative literacy construct.

Furthermore, the results of the study provide additional validation for the theoretical quantitative literacy construct modeled as a second-order factor comprising the interrelationship among a student's mathematical beliefs, mathematical disposition, and mathematical cognition.

In this model, the quantitative literacy construct is represented as a second-order factor comprising three first-order factors: mathematical beliefs, mathematical disposition, and mathematical cognition (see Fig. 1).

The relationship between these cognitive and affective components of the mental health literacy construct is not necessarily linear.

The strengths of this study were the sample size, the high adherence of participants at pre-test and follow-up and that the mental health literacy construct has been operationalized into measurable units with good face validity.

Previous studies of caregiver health literacy [ 19– 22] have used measures that assess a subset of health literacy constructs.

Changes in the literacy constructs are expected if sufficient outputs are delivered in terms of reach, dose received, and acceptability.

The literacy constructs, perceived social support and subjective norm, reflect an individual's experience about the attitude of important persons in his/her social environment.

Reviews of health literacy measurement instruments increasingly call for the development of tools that capture the full range of health literacy constructs [ 27– 29], such as critical thinking, interaction and communication, and confidence [ 11].

Furthermore, after the example of the outcome model for health promotion of Nutbeam (1998) [ 46], behavioral determinants for social engagement and searching for support were systematically identified, resulting in the loneliness literacy constructs self-efficacy, perceived social support, motivation and subjective norm [ 47- 50].