Ricardo Cartes?Velásquez|Luis Luengo Machuca
Adaptation and validation of the oral health literacy instrument for the Chilean population
University of Concepción|University of Concepción
report adaptation cultural validation oral health literacy instrument ohli adult chilean population attending public university health servicesthe original ohli english translated spanish backtranslated preliminary version obtained following review four experts pilot study carried 30 patients asked assess understanding questionnaire following variables included sociodemographic factors sex age average monthly income education marital status oral health history caries periodontal disease oral hygiene oral healthrelated quality life health literacy oral health literacy psychometric properties internal consistency temporal stability convergent validity predictive validity clinical examination questionnaire administration carried public health centres participants receiving treatmenta total 482 persons participated study internal consistency high cronbachs alpha values 0864 first section 0739 second section 0887 entire instrument temporal stability good intraclass correlation coefficient 06 regarding convergent validity correlation chilean version ohli ohlicl health literacy positively moderate strong r 05 05 statistically significant p 001 regarding predictive validity correlation ohli oral health damage negatively weak moderate r 02 02 statistically significant p 001the ohlicl demonstrates adequate psychometric properties measuring oral health literacy chilean populations attending public university health services