Rui Lebre, Eduardo Pinho, Rui Jesus, Luís Bastião, Carlos Costa
Dicoogle Open Source: The Establishment of a New Paradigm in Medical Imaging
Journal of medical systems
oral health literacy ohl relatively unexplored construct indian context previous studies estimating ohl among different populations india used instruments either previously validated different country tested psychometric properties background objective study develop indian oral health literacy measure evaluate psychometric properties instrument among telugu speaking population andhra pradesh iohlmt initial version instrument evaluated face content validity tested psychometric properties among 200 adult patients visiting outpatient department sibar institute dental sciences predictive validity instrument checked association iohlmt score oral health impact profile ohip14 decayedmissingfilled teeth dmft scores convergent validity tested assessing correlation iohlmt score rapid estimate adult literacy dentistry reald30 score spss version 20 software used analyse data independent samples ttest pearsons correlation oneway anova stepwise multiple linear regression done analyse data iohlmt demonstrated good internal consistency reliability cronbachs alpha 075 convergent validity r 034 reald30 iohlmt scores predictive validity significant negative correlation iohlmt ohip14 dmft scores iohlmt demonstrates good face validity content validity predictive validity convergent validity internal consistency reliability thus used among different populations india translation corresponding languages evaluation psychometric properties