Sander Greenland
Bayesian interpretation and analysis of research results
Seminars in hematology
recognizing deficit reading numeracy skills associated poorer oral health contemporary researchers identified additional components important attributes oral health literacy ohl use comprehensive functional ohl tools crucial oral health literacyadults questionnaire ohlaq evaluates reading comprehension numeracy listening decisionmaking skills describe validation process ohlaq brazilian version bohlaq crossculturally adapted version bohlaq applied 180 employees age 18 71 years mean 372 standard deviation sd 117 private university located southeast brazil psychometric properties evaluated analysis internal consistency cronbachs alpha reproducibility testretest convergent validity breald30 education level discriminant validity family income dental services predictive validity selfperception literacy questions construct validity exploratory factor analysis confirmatory factor analysis cfa evaluated dimensionality bohlaq promax method rotation data analyzed using spss statistics software mplus program bohlaq mean score 1184 sd 31 administration mean time 8 minutes sd 16 good internal reliability cronbachs alpha 073 excellent reproducibility kappa 089 intraclass correlation coefficient 097 preliminary tests showed data suitable pca kaysermeyerolkin measure 075 barletts test sphericity significant p 001 cfa showed instrument fourfactor solution excellent model fit estimates 2 63658715416 p value 00117 comparative fit index 09787 tucker lewis index 097 root mean square error approximation 003 bohlaq high scores significantly correlated high education level dental visit within last year preventive reason independence selfconfidence reading filling health forms better oral health selfperception p 05 bohlaq showed fast reliable instrument assess comprehensive functional ohl brazilian community clinical settings hlrp health literacy research practice 202263e224e231 plain language summary recognizing need advancing knowledge related ohl study aimed describe validation process bohlaq crosscultural adaptation psychometric properties evaluation presented satisfactory results bohlaq proved fast valid instrument measure comprehensive functional ohl brazilian context