Anastasiya Blizniuk|Masashi Ueno|Sayaka Furukawa|Yoko Kawaguchi
Evaluation of a Russian version of the oral health literacy instrument (OHLI)
Tokyo Medical and Dental University|Tokyo Medical and Dental University|Tokyo Medical and Dental University|Tokyo Medical and Dental University
oral health literacy become popular research area last decade however date health literacy instruments russian language exist objectives study develop russian version oral health literacy instrument ohli examine reliability validitya convenience sample patients visited dental division district hospital belarus used study ohli created originally english modified adapt characteristics routine dental services belarus translated russian followed backtranslation participants completed selfadministered sociodemographic questionnaire oral health knowledge test russian version ohli rohli bivariate multivariate statistical analyses including multiple regression modeling performed examine reliability validity rohliparticipants 281 adult patients aged 18 60 years mean age 331 122 641 women cronbachs alpha values two sections reading comprehension numeracy total rohli 0853 0815 0895 respectively mean total rohli score 772 145 mean reading comprehension numeracy scores 395 75 378 88 respectively rohli significantly correlated oral health knowledge test pearsons correlation coefficients oral health knowledge test reading comprehension numeracy total rohli 0401 0258 0363 respectively p 0001 women participants university degree visited dentist least year significantly p 005 higher mean scores section reading comprehension numeracy total rohli compared counterpartsthe rohli showed good internal consistency testretest reliability significantly associated oral health knowledge test sociodemographic behavioral factors therefore rohli proved reliable valid oral health literacy instrument russianspeaking people