healthhealth educationoral healthsmokingBACKGROUND: Existing evidence demonstrating a relationship between health literacy(HL) and periodontal health is insufficient to identify how providers can help patients manage periodontal disease. This study assessed associations between HL measures (word recognition, ...
Some assessment tools have faced similar criticisms as those directed at general health literacy measures [37, 38]. We identified that the most frequently utilized tools are based on HeLD framework, including HeLD-29, HeLD-14, and HeLD-Th. HeLD recognizes the multidimensional nature of OHL by ...
The instrument employed by the authors was a 5-item questionnaire of critical health literacy adapted for the oral health context.20 Blizniuk et al. (2015) found no association between levels of OHL and measures of periodontal health such as dental plaque index and deep periodontal pockets.21 ...
Previous pilot studies have explored the patterns of association between OHL and measures of OHRQoL using the Test of Functional Health Literacy in Dentistry (TOFHLiD) [28] and the Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Dentistry (REALD-99) [29]. Interestingly, as in the Parker and Jamieson stu...
The modularity value (Q) measures the extent to which a network can be divided into independent modules, modularity Q > 0.3 is convincing. A silhouette value (S value) close to 1 indicates that references within a cluster contain highly consistent or similar content.18,19 In this study,...
Comparing well-tested health literacy measures for oral health: A pilot assessment. Health Commun 2016;21(11):1161-9. Login to accessLanguage: EnglishC.E. credits: 1Start date: October 31, 2019Expiration date: October 31, 2022AGD PACE subject code(s): 750Categories: Older Adults, Oral ...
Overall summary measures for REALD-30, DNS, and SEF were calculated. Analyses relied upon descriptive, bivariate, and multivariate methods. Results: A majority (57%) of the sample reported having been to a dentist in the past year; 80% considered their oral health as definitely important and...
As expected, education was consistently related to health literacy measures. Race was significantly related to word recognition and comprehension using the REALD-30 but not to literacy assessed by the dry mouth brochure. Contrary to our expectations, self –reported oral health status was not ...
Measures Health literacy was measured using the Communicative and Critical Health Literacy (CCHL) Scale [10], which was developed and validated in Japan to assess communicative and critical health literacy [8]. The scale includes three items for communicative health literacy (items 1–3) and two...
[14]. In the general health realm, those with limited health literacy skills are more likely to miss important preventative measures such as mammograms, Pap smears and influenza shots [15], and be late presenters to the health care system [16]. Low health-literate individuals often have ...