ArticleCureus2025
Validation of the Health Literacy in Dentistry Scale (HeLD-14) in the Greek Language.
Article in Cureus, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
7 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
objectivesTo translate and culturally adapt the Health Literacy in Dentistry Scale (HeLD-14) into the Greek language.
methodsFollowing the official translation of the questionnaire, a cross-sectional study was carried out involving 333 participants from the general Greek population. The self-administered questionnaire, completed both in paper-and-pencil format and electronically, included sections on demographic information and oral health-related data, along with the translated versions of the Health Literacy in Dentistry Scale (HeLD-14) and the European Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire (HLS-EU-Q16). The study was conducted from March to July 2025, and data were analyzed using Statistical Product and Service Solutions (SPSS, version 29; IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows, Armonk, NY).
resultsExploratory factor analysis indicated that the HeLD-14 operates as a single-factor instrument, with all items showing factor loadings above 0.40 on this factor. The 14-item scale demonstrated strong internal consistency, with Cronbach's alpha of 0.879 and McDonald's ω of 0.877. Additionally, there was a positive and statistically significant correlation (r = 0.424, p < 0.001) between HeLD-14 scores and the total scores of the HLS-EU-Q16, supporting the concurrent validity of the Greek version of the HeLD-14.
conclusionsThe HeLD-14 is a reliable and valid tool for evaluating various aspects of oral health literacy among Greek-speaking adults. Its concise format and ease of use, along with strong psychometric properties, make it suitable for evaluating oral health literacy in both public health research and routine clinical practice.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.