Development and evaluation of a new oral health literacy instrument among telugu speaking population: The indian oral health literacy measure

• Main Authors: Viswa C Chandu (Author), Viswanath Vadapalli (Author), Srinivas Pachava (Author), Yamuna Marella (Author), Vikramsimha Bommireddy (Author), Srinivas Ravoori (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Purpose: Oral health literacy (OHL) is a relatively unexplored construct in the Indian context. Most of the few previous studies estimating OHL among different populations of India used instruments that were either previously validated in a different country or not tested for psychometric properties...