PMID- 32881604
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20210303
LR  - 20220420
IS  - 1502-3850 (Electronic)
IS  - 0001-6357 (Linking)
VI  - 79
IP  - 2
DP  - 2021 Mar
TI  - The reliability and validity of the Romanian rapid estimate of adult literacy in 
      dentistry (RREALD-30).
PG  - 132-138
LID - 10.1080/00016357.2020.1814405 [doi]
AB  - OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to translate and adapt the Rapid Estimate of Adult 
      Literacy in Dentistry (RREALD-30) instrument for Romanian urban adults and to 
      test its reliability and validity for oral health literacy studies. MATERIAL AND 
      METHODS: The study examined urban adult patients (n = 224) who attended the 
      dental school clinic at the Faculty of Dental Medicine, Bucharest. We collected 
      data through face-to-face interviews utilising the REALD-30 instrument. The 
      interviews enquired about the Oral Health Impact Profile (OHIP-14), background 
      characteristics, oral health-related knowledge, visits to dentists and self-rated 
      oral health status. We applied principal component analysis for factor structure 
      and Item Response Theory models to discriminate ability. A structural equation 
      model (SEM) evaluated whether knowledge, perceived oral health, and visits to the 
      dentist mediate the effect of RREALD on OHIP-14. RESULTS: Of the 224 
      participants, 113 (50.4%) were males. The internal consistency of the RREALD-30 
      measured by Cronbach's alpha was 0.88. The test-retest reliability was excellent 
      (Spearman's correlation coefficient 0.98, ICC 0.90). RREALD-30 exhibited good 
      concurrent and predictive validity. SEM demonstrated that RREALD mediated the 
      effect of visits to dentist on OHIP-14. CONCLUSION: The RREALD-30 proved 
      satisfactory psychometric properties and may serve to evaluate dental health 
      literacy among Romanian adults.
FAU - Sfeatcu, R
AU  - Sfeatcu R
AD  - Oral Health and Community Dentistry Department, Faculty of Dental Medicine, Carol 
      Davila University, Bucharest, Romania.
FAU - Lie, S A
AU  - Lie SA
AD  - Department of Clinical Dentistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bergen, 
      Bergen, Norway.
FAU - Funieru, C
AU  - Funieru C
AD  - Preventive Dentistry Department, Faculty of Dental Medicine, Carol Davila 
      University, Bucharest, Romania.
FAU - Astrom, A N
AU  - Astrom AN
AD  - Department of Clinical Dentistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bergen, 
      Bergen, Norway.
FAU - Virtanen, J I
AU  - Virtanen JI
AD  - Department of Clinical Dentistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bergen, 
      Bergen, Norway.
AD  - Institute of Dentistry, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20200903
PL  - Sweden
TA  - Acta Odontol Scand
JT  - Acta odontologica Scandinavica
JID - 0370344
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - Dentistry
MH  - *Health Literacy
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Oral Health
MH  - Psychometrics
MH  - Quality of Life
MH  - Reproducibility of Results
MH  - Romania
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - RREALD-30
OT  - Reliability
OT  - Romanian
OT  - adult literacy
OT  - validity
EDAT- 2020/09/04 06:00
MHDA- 2021/03/04 06:00
CRDT- 2020/09/04 06:00
PHST- 2020/09/04 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/03/04 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2020/09/04 06:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1080/00016357.2020.1814405 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Acta Odontol Scand. 2021 Mar;79(2):132-138. doi: 10.1080/00016357.2020.1814405. 
      Epub 2020 Sep 3.