Characteristics
Domains assessed:
Numeracy, Comprehension
Specific context:
Oral Health, Dental Health
Validation sample population age:
Adults: 18 to 64 years
Modes of administration in validation study:
Face-to-face
Psychometrics
Number of items:
57
Sample size in validation study:
195
Language of validated version:
Malay
Main article reference
Ramlay, M. Z., Saddki, N., Tin-Oo, M. M., & Arifin, W. N. (2020). Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Validation of Oral Health Literacy Instrument (OHLI) for Malaysian Adults. International journal of environmental research and public health, 17(15), 5407. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17155407
Corresponding author
Muhammad Ramlay
Description
Instrument to measure a person’s ability to understand dental terms and oral health information. Contains both reading comprehension and numeracy sections to measure a person’s ability to perform oral health literacy tasks that require reading comprehension and numeracy skills.
Year Measure first Published: 2020
About This Measure
Categorical scoring:
Yes
Scoring categories:
The OHLI score can be categorized into three oral health literacy levels:
Inadequate (0–59)
Marginal (60–74)
Adequate (75–100)
About the Validation of this Measure
Country where validated:
Malaysia
Content validity:
Process of translation, adaptation, and review.
Translation - two translators, a dental public health specialist and native language speaker .Both translators were proficient in English and their native language was Malay. Next, the two forward translations were reviewed by a review committee, comprising of two dental public health lecturers and two dental public health doctorate students. All members were fluent in both English and Malay languages.
Reliability (Cronbach Alpha):
0.88
Reliability notes:
The OHLI-M showed good reliability among adults in Malaysia
