Development of KROHL, a tool for evaluating oral health knowledge.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The authors aim to evaluate a scale assessing oral health knowledge, the KROHL (Knowledge Related to Oral Health Literacy) including the inter-rater reliability for scoring open-ended questions, internal consistency of the hypothesized scales, the discriminant validity of the resulting scale and its relationship to existing measures of oral health literacy.

Methods

The questionnaire was administered via face-to-face interviews to 144 volunteers recruited in the waiting areas of clinics throughout the NYU College of Dentistry.The KROHL questionnaire evaluates oral health knowledge by asking open-ended questions about the appearance, cause, treatment and prevention of caries, gum disease, oral cancer, tooth loss and malocclusion. Those 20 questions were scored to pr

SUBMITTER: Spivakovsky S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10194188 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature