Development and Psychometric Validation of a Brief Oral Health Literacy Instrument for Use in Population-Based Surveillance.

Researchers developed and validated a shortened eight-item oral health literacy screening tool (HeLD-8) that maintains effectiveness at identifying people with low oral health literacy while reducing respondent burden by over 40% compared to the original 14-item version.

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