Avita Rath|Melissa Wong|Cláudio Sérgio Pannuti|Priyadarshini Hesarghatta Ramamurthy|Bennete Fernandes|Amelia Shelton|Khairiyah Abdul Muttalib
Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of Malay version of Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Dentistry (MREALD-30) among Orang Asli population in Malaysia
SEGi University|SEGi University|Universidade de São Paulo|SEGi University|SEGi University|Ministry of Health|SEGi University
aim study adapt translate validate rapid estimate adult literacy dentistry mreald30 instrument orang asli population malaysiaafter translation crosscultural adaptation interviews conducted 326 participants temuan tribe village kampung tering johol negeri sembilan malaysia instruments validity assessed using scores mreald30 compared based occupation monthly household income educational attainment general literacy use dental services three dental outcomes questionnaire containing sociobehavioral information validated malay oral health impact profile mohip14 also administered reliability mreald30 assessed readministering 30 subjects two weeks correlations evaluated convergent discriminative validity mreald30 level education dental visiting habits monthly household income respectively predictive validity assessed mohip14 construct validity evaluated exploratory factor analysis using rasch modelthe internal consistency mreald30 measured cronbachs alpha 089 testretest reliability excellent icc 095 k 085 mreald30 exhibited good construct validity rasch analysis showed two factors infit meansquare statistics mreald30 within desired range 05020 discriminant validity predictive validity statistically significant p 005mreald30 showed strong reliability good construct discriminant predictive validity poor convergent validity overall showed good psychometric properties used community settings