Health literacy is the ability of a person to understand instructions on prescription,
appointment cards, health education pamphlets, doctor's directions and consent forms. A …

Background: Low health literacy is one among many reasons why preventable diseases
remain so common and why people often do not adopt healthy practices. It is important to …

Background: Poor literacy can impede one's ability not only to seek out needed health
information but also to process, understand and use it to make appropriate health care …

BACKGROUND: Limited health literacy among adults is one of the many barriers to better
oral health outcomes. It is not uncommon to find people who consider understanding oral …

Objective: The objectives of the present study are to develop a new questionnaire and
assess its test-retest reliability, internal reliability, convergent validity and predictive validity …

Methods: A total of 600 study subjects aged 18-64 years from all 4 blocks of Ghaziabad
visiting various outreach programmes using a multistage random sampling technique were …

Aims: To evaluate the association of oral health literacy (OHL) with oral health behavior and
oral health outcomes among dental patients in Hyderabad City. Settings and Design: Cross …

Objective: The present study aimed to assess oral health literacy level and its related factors
among adult patients visiting Kerman Dental School. Materials and Methods: This cross …

Abstract Background and Objective: Oral health literacy is an emerging focus of public
health research and has been found to be an important predictor of oral health outcomes …

Objective: This study aimed to determine the level of oral health literacy and behavior
among health sciences university students. Methods: The method used descriptive cross …