Oral Health Literacy Assessment: Development of an oral health literacy instrument for Spanish speakers

Journal of Public Health Dentistry

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-8

  Lee, Jessica ^a   Stucky, Brian ^b   Rozier, Gary ^c   Lee, Shoou Yih ^d   Zeldin, Leslie P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^c University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

oral health literacy; psychometrics; Spanish health literacy measurements

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPREHENSION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH LITERACY; HEALTH STATUS; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; VALIDATION STUDY; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; COMPREHENSION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH LITERACY; HEALTH STATUS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; ORAL HEALTH; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TRANSLATING; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84874110605     PISSN: 00224006     EISSN: 17527325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jphd.12000     Document Type: Article

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