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The Role of Oral Health Literacy and Shared Decision Making
, 2022 Inadequate health literacy represents a common barrier to medical and dental care. As dental professionals continue treating a growing number of older adults in their practices, they will often encounter individuals with inadequate health literacy.
Hogue, Christie-Michele +5 more
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A new comprehensive oral health literacy scale: development and psychometric evaluation
BMC Oral Health, 2021 Background It has been widely accepted that oral health status is related to oral health literacy. The need to measure oral health literacy has led to the development of measurement instruments.
Yue Sun +4 more
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The Role of Health Literacy in Achieving Oral Health for Elders [PDF]
Journal of Dental Education, 2005 A mismatch between the literacy skills of individuals and the demands of oral health services may erect an unnecessary barrier to preventive care and treatment. Findings from the 1992 survey of adult literacy in the United States indicate that more than two‐thirds of adults over the age of sixty were limited in their ability to use written health ...
Rudd, Rima, Horowitz, Alice
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A Framework to Foster Oral Health Literacy and Oral/General Health Integration
Frontiers in Dental Medicine, 2021 Science and technology advances have led to remarkable progress in understanding, managing, and preventing disease and promoting human health. This phenomenon has created new challenges for health literacy and the integration of oral and general health ...
Dushanka V. Kleinman +2 more
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The impact of oral health literacy on periodontal health status [PDF]
Journal of Public Health Dentistry, 2012 AbstractObjectiveThe objective of this study was to describe oral health literacy (OHL) among periodontal patients and to examine its association with periodontal health status.MethodsThis cross‐sectional study included new and referred patients presenting to the University of North Carolina Graduate Periodontology Clinic.
Meggan M H, Wehmeyer +3 more
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Validation of the HeLD-14 functional oral health literacy instrument in a general population [PDF]
PeerJ, 2023 Background Oral health literacy (OHL) is recognized as an important determinant of oral outcomes. Measuring OHL with a valid and reliable instrument that accurately captures the functional nature of this construct across cultures is needed.
Priscilla Flynn +5 more
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Health Literacy: A Pathway to Better Oral Health
American Journal of Public Health, 2014 Objectives. We examined whether health literacy was associated with self-rated oral health status and whether the relationship was mediated by patient–dentist communication and dental care patterns. Methods. We tested a path model with data collected from 2 waves of telephone surveys (baseline, 2009–2010; follow-up, 2011) of individuals residing in ...
Yi, Guo +5 more
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Oral health literacy and oral health behavior in pregnant women referring to health centers in south of Kerman province [PDF]
Majallah-i Zanān, Māmā̓ī va Nāzā̓ī-i Īrān, 2020 Introduction: Low knowledge of oral health in pregnant women can affect both mother and child’s health. This study was performed with aim to evaluate oral and dental health literacy and oral health behavior in pregnant women in south cities of Kerman ...
Marzieh Karimi Afshar +3 more
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Relationship between oral health literacy and oral health status [PDF]
BMC Oral Health, 2018 Health literacy has been found to be a strong predictor of an individuals' health, health behavior and health outcomes. Lower literacy has been linked to problems with the use of preventive services, delayed diagnoses of medical conditions, poor adherence to medical instructions, poor self-management skills, increased mortality risks, poor health ...
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Oral health literacy: correcting the mismatch [PDF]
Journal of Public Health Dentistry, 2012 Any unnecessary death and most especially the death of a child in an industrialized society such as ours with the means to prevent the cause of death, to intervene early, and treat even late symptoms, is not simply tragic but criminal. Horowitz and Kleinman insist that we learn from the untimely death of Deamonte Driver and take action.
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