Larissa Chaves Morais de Lima|Érick Tássio Barbosa Neves|Laio da Costa Dutra|Ramon Targino Firmino|Luíza Jordânia Serafim de Araújo|Saul Martins Paiva|Fernanda Morais Ferreira|Ana Flávia Granville?Garcia
Psychometric properties of BREALD-30 for assessing adolescents’ oral health literacy
Universidade Estadual da Paraíba|Universidade Estadual da Paraíba|Universidade Estadual da Paraíba|Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais|Universidade Estadual da Paraíba|Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais|Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais|Universidade Estadual da Paraíba
objective evaluate psychometric properties brazilian portuguese version rapid estimate adult literacy dentistry breald30 administered adolescents methods study included 750 adolescents 375 aged 12 years 375 aged 1519 years attending public private schools campina grande state paraba brazil 2017 reliability measured based internal consistency testretest reliability convergent validity measured based correlations breald30 functional literacy indicator scores divergent validity measured comparing breald30 scores sociodemographic variables predictive validity association breald30 scores presence cavitated carious lesions tested using multiple logistic regression model statistical tests performed significance level 5 results breald30 showed good internal consistency 12 year olds 15 to19 year olds cronbachs alpha 0871 0834 respectively good testretest reliability intraclass correlation coefficient icc 0898 0974 kappa 0804 0808 respectively moreover itemtotal correlation satisfactory items breald30 convergent validity functional literacy indicator 12 year olds rs 0558 p lt 0001 15 19 year olds rs 0652 p lt 0001 participants higher oral health literacy levels attended private schools p lt 0001 belonged economic classes b2 p lt 0001 parents higher education levels p lt 0001 included indicating divergent validity breald30 participants lower breald30 scores likely cavitated carious lesions 12 year olds odds ratio 237 95 confidence interval 95ci 148380 15 19 year olds 196 95ci 124311 conclusions breald30 shows satisfactory psychometric properties use brazilian adolescents applied fast simple reliable measure oral health literacy