scholarly journals Systematic review of the tools of oral and dental health literacy: assessment of conceptual dimensions and psychometric properties

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohtasham Ghaffari ◽  
Sakineh Rakhshanderou ◽  
Ali Ramezankhani ◽  
Yadollah Mehrabi ◽  
Ali Safari-Moradabadi
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Health Literacy ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Dental Health ◽  
Literacy Assessment

scholarly journals Systematic review of the tools of oral and dental health literacy: Assessment of conceptual dimensions and psychometric properties

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohtasham Ghaffari ◽  
Sakineh Rakhshanderou ◽  
Ali Ramezankhani ◽  
Yadollah Mehrabi ◽  
Ali Safari-Moradabadi
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Health Literacy ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Dental Health ◽  
Qualitative Assessment ◽  
One Dimension ◽  
Literacy Assessment ◽  
General Evaluation ◽  
Cosmin Checklist ◽  
Literacy Methods

Abstract Background This article aims to provide a description of conceptual dimensions and psychometric properties of the tools of oral and dental health literacy. Methods Two authors in this study conducted electronic searches in the Medline (via PubMed), and Embase databases to find relevant articles from 1990 to present day. Evaluation of the tools was carried out in two parts; general evaluation of the tools using skills introduced by Sørensen et al., and qualitative assessment of psychometric properties using COSMIN checklist. Results After reviewing 1839 articles on oral and dental health literacy and evaluating 33 full text articles for eligibility, 21 articles entered the study. The sample size varied from 20 to 1405 subjects and the items of each tool ranged from 11 to 99 items. Of the 21 tools examined, 16 tools were evaluated for word recognition. For the studies examined, the evaluation of COSMIN scores was often fair or good. Of the 21 tools examined, 9 tools at least in one dimension were in the category of "poor", 19 tools were in the category of "fair", 20 tools were in the category of "good", and 4 tools were in the category of "excellent" in at least one dimension. Conclusion The findings of this study showed that some aspects of oral and dental health literacy are being ignored in the existing tools. Therefore, the authors of present study emphasize on the necessity to design and develop a comprehensive tool and take into account two characteristics of simplicity and briefness for international use.

scholarly journals Systematic review of the tools of oral and dental health literacy: Assessment of conceptual dimensions and psychometric properties

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohtasham Ghaffari ◽  
Sakineh Rakhshanderou ◽  
Ali Ramezankhani ◽  
Yadollah Mehrabi ◽  
Ali Safari-Moradabadi
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Health Literacy ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Dental Health ◽  
Qualitative Assessment ◽  
One Dimension ◽  
Literacy Assessment ◽  
General Evaluation ◽  
Cosmin Checklist ◽  
Literacy Methods

Abstract Background This article aims to provide a description of conceptual dimensions and psychometric properties of the tools of oral and dental health literacy. Methods Two authors in this study conducted electronic searches in the Medline (via PubMed), and Embase databases to find relevant articles from 1990 to present day. Evaluation of the tools was carried out in two parts; general evaluation of the tools using skills introduced by Sørensen et al., and qualitative assessment of psychometric properties using COSMIN checklist. Results After reviewing 1839 articles on oral and dental health literacy and evaluating 33 full text articles for eligibility, 21 articles entered the study. The sample size varied from 20 to 1405 subjects and the items of each tool ranged from 11 to 99 items. Of the 21 tools examined, 16 tools were evaluated for word recognition. For the studies examined, the evaluation of COSMIN scores was often fair or good. Of the 21 tools examined, 9 tools at least in one dimension were in the category of "poor", 19 tools were in the category of "fair", 20 tools were in the category of "good", and 4 tools were in the category of "excellent" in at least one dimension. Conclusion The findings of this study showed that some aspects of oral and dental health literacy are being ignored in the existing tools. Therefore, the authors of present study emphasize on the necessity to design and develop a comprehensive tool and take into account two characteristics of simplicity and briefness for international use.

scholarly journals Systematic review of the tools of oral and dental health literacy: Assessment of conceptual dimensions and psychometric properties

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohtasham Ghaffari ◽  
Sakineh Rakhshanderou ◽  
Ali Ramezankhani ◽  
Yadollah Mehrabi ◽  
Ali Safari-Moradabadi
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Health Literacy ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Full Text ◽  
Dental Health ◽  
Qualitative Assessment ◽  
One Dimension ◽  
Literacy Assessment ◽  
General Evaluation ◽  
Cosmin Checklist

Abstract Background: This article aims to provide a description of conceptual dimensions and psychometric properties of the tools of oral and dental health literacy. Methods: Two authors in this study conducted electronic searches in the Medline (via PubMed), and Embase databases to find relevant articles from 1990 to present day. Evaluation of the tools was carried out in two parts; general evaluation of the tools using skills introduced by Sørensen et al., and qualitative assessment of psychometric properties using COSMIN checklist. Results: After reviewing 1839 articles on oral and dental health literacy and evaluating 33 full text articles for eligibility, 21 articles entered the study. The sample size varied from 20 to 1405 subjects and the items of each tool ranged from 11 to 99 items. Of the 21 tools examined, 16 tools were evaluated for word recognition. For the studies examined, the evaluation of COSMIN scores was often fair or good. Of the 21 tools examined, 9 tools at least in one dimension were in the category of "poor", 19 tools were in the category of "fair", 20 tools were in the category of "good", and 4 tools were in the category of "excellent" in at least one dimension. Conclusion: The findings of this study showed that some aspects of oral and dental health literacy are being ignored in the existing tools. Therefore, the authors of present study emphasize on the necessity to design and develop a comprehensive tool and take into account two characteristics of simplicity and briefness for international use.

scholarly journals Systematic review of the tools of oral and dental health literacy: Assessment of conceptual dimensions and psychometric properties

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohtasham Ghaffari ◽  
Yadollah Mehrabi ◽  
Sakineh Rakhshanderou ◽  
Ali Ramezankhani ◽  
Ali Safari-Moradabadi
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Oral Health ◽  
Health Literacy ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Full Text ◽  
Dental Health ◽  
Qualitative Assessment ◽  
One Dimension ◽  
Literacy Assessment ◽  
General Evaluation

Abstract Background This article aims to provide a description of conceptual dimensions and psychometric properties of the tools of oral and dental health literacy.Methods Two authors in this study conducted electronic searches in the Medline (via PubMed), and Embase databases to find relevant articles from 1990 to present day. Evaluation of the tools was carried out in two parts; general evaluation of the tools using skills introduced by Sornes et al., and qualitative assessment of psychometric properties using COSMIN checklist.Results After reviewing 1839 articles on oral and dental health literacy and evaluating 33 full text articles for eligibility, 21 articles entered the study. The sample size varied from 20 to 1405 subjects and the items of each tool ranged from 11 to 99 items. Of the 21 tools examined, 16 tools were evaluated for word recognition. For the studies examined, the evaluation of COSMIN scores was often fair or good. Of the 21 tools examined, 9 tools at least in one dimension were in the category of "poor", 19 tools were in the category of "fair", 20 tools were in the category of "good", and 4 tools were in the category of "excellent" in at least one dimension.Discussion The authors of this study emphasize on the necessity to design and develop a comprehensive tool and take into account two characteristics of simplicity and briefness for international use. Because it is only then that, the tool can be used to transform oral and dental health literacy into a comprehensive and usable index for monitoring the world’s health system (in oral health).

scholarly journals Psychometric properties of an Arabic-language health literacy assessment scale for adolescents (HAS-A-AR) in Palestine

BMJ Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. e034943
Author(s):  
Mohammed B A Sarhan ◽  
Harry S Shannon ◽  
Rika Fujiya ◽  
Masamine Jimba ◽  
Rita Giacaman
Keyword(s):  
Health Literacy ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
Assessment Scale ◽  
Functional Health ◽  
Functional Health Literacy ◽  
Literacy Assessment ◽  
Cronbach’S Alpha ◽  
Cronbach's Alpha

ObjectivesHealth literacy research in Palestine is limited, and a locally validated tool for use among adolescents has been unavailable until now. Therefore, this study aimed to adapt health literacy assessment scale for adolescents (HAS-A) into Arabic language (HAS-A-AR) and Palestinian context and to investigate its psychometric properties.DesignWe conducted a cross-sectional household survey using a stratified random sample and household face-to-face interviews.Setting and participantsWe conducted 1200 interviews with sixth to ninth graders in the Ramallah and al-Bireh district of the West Bank, Palestine in 2017.MethodsWe translated and adapted HAS-A to be sensitive to the Palestinian context and tested its psychometric properties. We evaluated face and content validity during the back-translation process and checked for construct validity through exploratory factor analysis (EFA). We tested for internal consistency using Cronbach’s alpha, MacDonald’s omega test and the greatest lower bound (GLB). Furthermore, we calculated the scale’s average inter-item correlation.ResultsEFA revealed that HAS-A-AR has a similar structure to the original HAS-A. It extracted three factors (communication, confusion and functional health literacy) whose eigenvalues were >1. Together they explained 57% of the total variance. The proportions of adolescents with high levels of communication, confusion and functional health literacy were 45%, 68% and 80%, respectively. Cronbach’s alpha, MacDonald’s omega and the GLB values for communication subscale were 0.87, 0.88 and 0.90, and they were 0.78, 0.77 and 0.79 for confusion subscale, while they were 0.77, 0.77 and 0.80, respectively, for functional healthy literacy subscale. The average inter-item correlation for the subscales ranged between 0.36 and 0.59.ConclusionHAS-A-AR is a valid and reliable health literacy measuring instrument with appropriate psychometric properties. HAS-A-AR is currently available for use among adolescents in Palestine and the surrounding Arab countries with similar characteristics as Palestine, including language, culture and political instability.

scholarly journals Evaluation of the psychometric properties of the Brazilian version of the Oral Health Literacy Assessment in Spanish and development of a shortened form of the instrument

PLoS ONE ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. e0207989 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernanda Maria Rovai Bado ◽  
Flávio Rebustini ◽  
Lisa Jamieson ◽  
Karine Laura Cortellazzi ◽  
Fábio Luiz Mialhe
Keyword(s):  
Oral Health ◽  
Health Literacy ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Literacy Assessment ◽  
Oral Health Literacy ◽  
Brazilian Version

scholarly journals Psychometric properties of health literacy measures in Persian biomedical literature: A systematic review

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 773-785
Author(s):  
Mahmoud Tavoussi ◽  
Jila Sedighi ◽  
Ali Montazeri ◽  
Fatemeh Zarei ◽  
Ramin Mozafari kermani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Health Literacy ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Biomedical Literature

scholarly journals Assessment Tools for Health Literacy among the General Population: A Systematic Review

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (8) ◽  
pp. 1711 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongyan Liu ◽  
Huan Zeng ◽  
Yang Shen ◽  
Fan Zhang ◽  
Manoj Sharma ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Health Literacy ◽  
General Population ◽  
Quality Assessment ◽  
Data Extraction ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Literacy Assessment ◽  
Healthy City ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Key Indicators

Health literacy is an important determinant of health, and is one of the key indicators of a healthy city. Developing and improving methods to measure health literacy is prudent and necessary. This review summarizes the findings of published tools for assessing health literacy among the general population to provide a reference for establishing health literacy assessment tools in the future. In this systematic review, PubMed, Embase, and Web of Science were used to search articles regarding tools for assessing health literacy among the general population published up to 10 January 2018. Two researchers independently conducted literature screening, quality assessment of methodology, and data extraction according to preset inclusion and exclusion criteria. The quality assessment of the research was examined with the use of the specifications of the reporting guidelines for survey research (SURGE). Eleven articles met the inclusion criteria. All included instruments in monitoring the health literacy of the general population were presented through the form of questionnaires. The multistage process of making all the scales generally involved the following steps: item development, pre-testing, and evaluation of readability. However, the specific methods were different. Internal consistency for all the instruments was acceptable but with weak consistency among the subscales for some instruments. Most of the identified instruments derived from the definition of health literacy or were based on existing health literacy theory. Approximately 30% of the performed studies provided no description of the important features specified in the SURGE. This review indicates a trend in the increasing tools for assessing the health literacy of the general population by using multidimensional structures and comprehensive measurement approaches. However, no clear “consensus” was observed in the dimensions of health literacy tools.

scholarly journals A Systematic Review of Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Psychometric Properties of Oral Health Literacy Tools

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (19) ◽  
pp. 10422
Author(s):  
Sobiya Praveen ◽  
Jinal Parmar ◽  
Navira Chandio ◽  
Amit Arora
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Oral Health ◽  
Health Literacy ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Cultural Adaptation ◽  
Methodological Quality ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Oral Health Literacy ◽  
Cross Cultural Adaptation

The aims of this systematic review were to critically appraise the quality of the cross-cultural adaptation and the psychometric properties of the translated versions of oral health literacy assessment tools. CINAHL (EBSCO), Medline (EBSCO), EMBASE (Ovid), and ProQuest Dissertation and Thesis were searched systematically. Studies focusing on cross-cultural adaptation and psychometric properties of oral health literacy tools were included. The methodological quality of included studies was assessed according to the COSMIN Risk of Bias checklist. Sixteen oral health literacy instruments in 11 different languages were included in this systematic review. However, only seven instruments met the criteria for an accurate cross-cultural adaptation process, while the remaining tools failed to meet at least one criterion for suitable quality of cross-cultural adaptation process. None of the studies evaluated all the aspects of psychometric properties. Most of the studies reported internal consistency, reliability, structural validity, and construct validity. Despite adequate ratings for some reported psychometric properties, the methodological quality of studies on translated versions of oral health literacy tools was mostly doubtful to inadequate. Researchers and clinicians should follow standard guidelines for cross-cultural adaptation and assess all aspects of psychometric properties for using oral health literacy tools in cross-cultural settings.

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