Alcy R Torres, Mugdha Mohanty, Carla Salvador, Wilson Chavez, Mauricio Mora, Karl Kuban
Professional and Demographic Profile of Spanish-Speaking Child Neurologists in the United States
Journal of child neurology
past years increasing emphasis contextspecific health literacy however contextspecific psychometric tools available regard oral health literacy aim study develop validate orthodontic health literacy tool orthhlt development initial item pool items assessed content validity final tool consisted 22 items four domains functional communicative critical orthodontic health literacy orthodontic knowledge orthhlt administered convenience sample 642 subjects data subjected exploratory confirmatory factor analyses using ibm spss version 200 software ibm spss amos 260 respectively pearsons correlation independent samples ttest oneway analysis variance performed orthhlt demonstrated good face content validity domainspecific internal consistency reliability values optimal exploratory factor analysis items four domains resulted single factor solution four models evaluated confirmatory factor analysis correlated factors model showed best model fit indices domain orthhlt showed moderate strong positive correlation indian oral health literacy measure telugu indicating convergent validity tool orthhlt first contextspecific oral health literacy tool demonstrates strong psychometric properties could used evaluate orthodontic health literacy articulate orthodontic health education materials informed manner