Leciel K Bono, JoAnn Gurenlian
Advancing the voice of women through doctoral education: Proposed models for dental hygienists and dental therapists
Journal of dental education
health literacy main factor health improvement allowing individuals greater capacity engage participate collective health promotion actions evaluation functional health literacy essential determine ability individual understand basic health information present study aimed perform translation crosscultural adaptation rapid estimate adult literacy dentistry30 portuguese language test reliability validity version translation cultural adaptation instrument applied group individuals participate program atividade senior developed municipality viseu portugal final sample composed 206 participants accepted responding translated version instrument statistical validation accomplished complete process obtain final instrument one question removed creation final instrument 29 questions therefore named rapid estimate adult literacy dentistry29 pt rapid estimate adult literacy dentistry29 pt presented good internal reliability cronbachs alpha ranged 089 090 words deleted individually analysis testretest reliability revealed excellent reproducibility verify rapid estimate adult literacy dentistry29 pt scale assessment oral health literacy among older adults presents acceptable internal consistency global cronbachs alpha 0894 new scale applied assess oral health literacy among older portuguese adults presenting acceptable internal consistency validated assess oral health literacy crucial epidemiological studies