The Mental Health Literacy Scale

The Mental Health Literacy Scale is a 35 item, univariate scale that is easily administered and scored. The MHLS can be used in assessing individual and population level differences in MHL and in determining the impact of programmes designed to improve MHL. The MHLS displays good psychometric and methodological properties. The measure also demonstrated good internal and test-retest reliability.

Citation: O'Connor, M., & Casey, L. (2015). The Mental Health Literacy Scale (MHLS): A new scale-based measure of mental health literacy. Psychiatry Research, 229(1), 511-516.