Table 2 Chronological overview of oral health literacy tools
From: Measuring oral health literacy: a scoping review of existing tools
Abbreviation | Name of tool | Year | Authors | Type of tool |
|---|---|---|---|---|
REALD-99 | Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Dentistry | 2007 | Richman et al. | 99 item word recognition |
REALD-30 | Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Dentistry -30 | 2007 | Lee et al. | 30 item word recognition common dental words |
ToFHLiD | Test of Functional Health Literacy in Dentistry | 2007 | Gong et al. | Reading comprehension and numeracy 68 item reading comprehension and 12 item numeracy |
OHLI | Oral Health Literacy Instrument | 2009 | Sabbahi et al. | Reading comprehension and numeracy |
REALM-D | Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine and Dentistry | 2010 | Atchinson et al. | 84 item word recognition |
CMOHK | Comprehensive Measure of Oral Health Knowledge | 2010 | Macek et al. | 44 questions conceptual knowledge |
BHLOHKP | Baltimore Health Literacy and Oral Health Knowledge Project survey | 2011 | Macek et al. | 44 item questionnaire conceptual knowledge across 4 domains |
HKREALD-30 | Hong Kong Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Dentistry | 2012 | Wong et al. | Adaptation of the REALD-99 translated to Chinese and shortened to the REALD-30 |
2013 | Bridges et al. | |||
OHLA-S | Oral Health Literacy Assessment-Spanish | 2012 | Lee et al. | Developed using the REALD-30 word recognition and comprehension |
OHLA-E | Oral Health Literacy Assessment-English | 2012 | Lee et al. | Developed using the REALD-30 word recognition and comprehension |
REALMD-20 | Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Dentistry-20 | 2013 | Gironda et al. | 20 item word recognition |
HKOHLAT-P | Hong Kong Oral Health Literacy Assessment Task for Paediatric Dentistry | 2013 | Wong et al. | Mainly literacy and numeracy tasks |
2013 | Bridges et al. | |||
OHL-AQ | Oral Health Literacy Adults Questionnaire | 2013 | Sistani et al. | 17 items in 4 sections, reading comprehension, numeracy, literacy and decision making |
HeLD | Health Literacy in Dentistry | 2013 | Jones et al. | Modelled on the HeLMS |