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Caries prevalence and manganese and iron levels of drinking water in school children living in a rural/semi-urban region of North-Eastern Greece
Environmental health and preventive medicine
validate brazilian version short assessment health literacy portuguesespeaking adults sahlpa 50item test proposed particularly helpful instrument assess health literacy people limited skills portuguese population used standard procedure cultural adaptation administered instrument 249 participants examined construct validity using groups expectedly increasing levels health literacy laypersons general population engineering researchers health researchers physicians association age educational attainment dichotomizing scores median laypersons group exploratory factor analysis revealed instrument onedimensional justified reduction 33 items sahlpa33 displayed adequate reliability cronbachs 073 frequency limited health literacy highest among laypersons lowest among physicians p 0001 p trend 0001 proportion participants limited health literacy decreased increasing education attainment age sexadjusted p trend 0001 limited health literacy also tended decrease age although association nonsignificant sex educationadjusted p trend 0067 culturally adapted brief simple instrument health literacy assessment showed valid fairly reliable portuguese lowliterate adults sahlpa33 fills gap health literacy assessment instruments may used guide communication strategies vulnerable patients communities