Characteristics
Domains assessed:
Prose: Pronunciation
Specific context:
General, Dental Health
Validation sample population age:
Older Adults: 65+ years, Adults: 18 to 64 years
Modes of administration in validation study:
Face-to-face
Psychometrics
Number of items:
20
Sample size in validation study:
200
Language of validated version:
Portuguese
Main article reference
Cruvinel, A., Mendez, D., Oliveira, J., Gutierres, E., Lotto, M., Machado, M., Oliveira, T., & Cruvinel, T. (2017). The Brazilian version of the 20-item rapid eastimate of adult literacy in medicine and dentistry. PeerJ, 5:e3744. doi: doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3744
Corresponding author
Thiago Cruvinel
Description
A 20-item Brazilian Portuguese tool to evaluate medical and dental health literacy.
Year Measure first Published: 2017
About This Measure
Categorical scoring:
No
About the Validation of this Measure
Country where validated:
Brazil
Content validity:
The original REALMD-20 was translated into Brazilian Portuguese. A few terms were replaced with culturally appropriate, equivalent terms prior to a pre-test of the tool conducted through face to face interviews. Volunteers' feedback was used to evaluate the difficulty of each item. Items were then arranged in ascending order of difficulty. Finally, the tool was back-translated to ensure consistency with the original version.
Reliability (Cronbach Alpha):
0.789
