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Adaptation and validation of the early childhood oral health impact scale in Lithuania

Birutė Jankauskienė, Julija Narbutaitė, Ričardas Kubilius, Alvydas Gleiznys

Summary

Background. The Early Childhood Oral Health Impact Scale (ECOHIS) is a parent – assessed oral health related quality of life measure developed to assess the impact of oral health problems on preschool children.
Aim. The aim of this study was to develop a Lithuanian version of the ECOHIS and evaluate its validity and reliability among preschool children in Lithuania.

Design. A lithuanian version of ECOHIS (L-ECOHIS) was developed through a forward-backword translation. A cross-sectional study was performed to assess discriminant and convergent validity and internal consistency. Data was collected from 130 parents of 0-5 year-old children visiting the dental department. A subsample of parents filled the questionnaire again to assess the test-retest reliability.

Results. Cronbach's alpha for the instrument was 0.869. Item-total correlation coefficients ranged from 0.389 to 0.797. Scores of the child and family sections were significantly correlated (P < 0.001). The scale scores indicating worse quality of life were significantly associated with poor parental ratings of their child's oral health and problem-based dental attendance. The intra-class correlation coefficient was 0.98.

Conclusion. The L-ECOHIS is a valid and reliable measure to assess OHRQoL of 0–5 year-old children with Lithuanian speaking parents.

Key words: children, oral health, quality of life, validity, reliability.

Received: 28 08 2012

Accepted for publishing: 21 12 2012

¹Department of Oral Health and Paediatric Dentistry, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Lithuania
²Department of oral and maxillofacial surgery, Lithuanian University of Health Science, Kaunas, Lithuania

Birutė Jankauskienė¹ – PhD student, assist. prof.
Julija Narbutaitė¹ – D.D.S., PhD, assoc. prof.
Ričardas Kubilius² – D.D.S., Dr. hab. med., professor
Alvydas Gleiznys² – D.D.S., PhD, assoc. prof.

Address correspondence to: Birutė Jankauskienė, J. Lukšos-Daumanto g. 6, LT 50106 Kaunas.
E-mail address: labanauskaite@yahoo.ca



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