Santosh Kumar Tadakamadla|Mir Faeq Ali Quadri|Amir H. Pakpour|Abdulaziz M Zailai|Mohammed E. Sayed|Mohammed Mashyakhy|Aadil Inamdar|Jyothi Tadakamadla
Reliability and validity of Arabic Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Dentistry (AREALD-30) in Saudi Arabia
Griffith University|Jazan University|Qazvin University of Medical Sciences|Ministry of Health|Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey|Jazan University|Jazan University|Griffith University
evaluate reliability validity arabic rapid estimate adult literacy dentistry areald30 saudi arabia convenience sample 200 subjects approached 177 agreed participate giving response rate 885 rapid estimate adult literacy dentistry reald99 translated arabic prepare longer shorter versions arabic rapid estimate adult literacy dentistry areald99 areald30 participant provided areald99 also includes words areald30 questionnaire containing sociobehavioral information arabic oral health impact profile aohip14 also administered reliability areald30 assessed readministering 20 subjects two weeks convergent predictive validity areald30 evaluated correlations areald99 selfperceived oral health status dental visiting habits aohip14 respectively discriminant validity assessed relation educational level construct validity evaluated confirmatory factor analysis cfa reliability areald30 excellent intraclass correlation coefficient 099 exhibited good convergent discriminant validity poor predictive validity cfa showed presence two factors infit meansquare statistics areald30 within desired range 050 20 rasch analysis areald30 showed excellent reliability good convergent concurrent validity failed predict differences subjects categorized based oral health outcomes