Congenital malformations and their impact on Oral Health-Related Quality of Life among Syrian children with cleft lip and/or palate

Dak-Albab, Rahaf; Soudan, Rania; Shakhashero, Hisham; Zabad, Mhd Khalil

doi:10.1016/j.ijd.2013.07.012

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“…The authors found that a low socio economical status (SES) could negatively affect the oral health related quality of life of children [44]. In the present study, reliability assessed by both the test-retest and internal consistency was satisfactory.…”

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Evaluation of the reliability and validity of the Early Childhood Oral Health Impact Scale (ECOHIS) questionnaire translated into Malagasy

Randrianarivony

Ravelomanantsoa

Razanamihaja

2020

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The Early Childhood Oral Health Impact Scale (ECOHIS) was developed to assess the impact of oral health conditions on the quality of life of preschool children and theirs families. The ECOHIS was originally developed in English language, translated and validated in several countries but no validated transcultural version of this questionnaire is currently available in Madagascar. The objectives of this cross-cultural study were to translate, validate and analyse the psychometric properties of the Malagasy version of ECOHIS. Method: The translation followed the forward-backward translation process. The Malagasy version obtained was pre-tested on ten mothers. Then, the questionnaire was administered by interview to 150 parents/guardians of children aged 3 to 5 years old frequenting two nursery schools in the town of Mahajanga to evaluate the reliability and validity of its psychometric characteristics. Reliability was assessed by the test-retest procedure with an interval of 15 days by using the intra-class correlation (ICC). Internal consistency was tested by Cronbach's alpha coefficient. The validity of construct, discriminant and criterion were evaluated. Construct validity was evaluated by Spearman rank correlation and tested using exploratory factor analysis and partial confirmatory factor analysis. Discriminant validity was tested between groups of children presenting consequences of untreated decayed teeth. Clinical examination was performed using the decayed, missing, filled teeth (dmft) and the pulpal involvement, ulceration, fistula, abscess (pufa) indices for assessing dental caries and consequences of untreated decayed teeth. Results: The cultural adaptation showed that the respondents understood the questions. The intraclass correlation coefficient for test retest was 0.91. The internal consistency demonstrated a good reliability of the Malagasy-ECOHIS version with a Cronbach's alpha coefficient of 0.88. The convergent validity evaluated by Pearson correlation coefficients provided positive and significant correlation values between all the items ranging from 0.26 to 0.72. Significant associations between the ECOHIS scores and the global rating of oral health supported the validity of the construct. Convergent and discriminant validity were obtained by testing the association of ECOHIS scores on the child and family sections with poor parental ratings of their child's oral health, high caries experience and untreated decayed teeth consequences which were to be statistically significant. Conclusion: The results showed that this Malagasy version of ECOHIS questionnaire has shown good psychometric properties and could be used on Malagasy parents of preschool children to measure the impact of oral health status on the child and family quality of life.

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Evaluation of the reliability and validity of the Early Childhood Oral Health Impact Scale (ECOHIS) questionnaire translated into Malagasy

Randrianarivony

Ravelomanantsoa

Razanamihaja

2020

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“…Previous studies have used different oral health–related quality-of-life measures so the results of these studies cannot be directly compared (Bos and Prahl, 2011; Broder et al, 2012; Antonarkis et al, 2013; Dak-Albab and Dashash, 2013; Eslami et al, 2013; Ward et al, 2013). However, the results are considerably different from those among Danish children of same age using same outcome measure (Wogelius et al, 2009).…”

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“…Inconsistency of the results may be due to different study groups and methods used; for example, lack of quality-of-life measures specific to CLP have been brought up in recent literature (Antonarkis et al, 2013). However, the results of the effect of social factors have been more consistent; the oral health–related quality of life was poorer among children whose parents did not have private insurance (Broder et al, 2012) and among children from families of a lower socioeconomic status (Dak-Albab and Dashash, 2013), which suggests that treatment availability and options play an important role.…”

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Comparison of Oral Health–Related Quality of Life among Schoolchildren with and without Cleft Lip and/or Palate

Kortelainen¹,

Tolvanen

Luoto

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The Cleft Palate Craniofacial Journal

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“…The questions were related to first, − the education of both the father and the mother of the children, second, the monthly family income, and third, profession of father and mother. Based on the previous questions, the SES was divided into 3 categories (high, moderate and low) [21, 22]. The number of missing, decayed and filled teeth in children according to DMFT index, gingival index according to Löe-Silence, and plaque and periodontitis index according to Ramfjord.…”

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Oral health and socio-economic status among children during Syrian crisis: a cross-sectional study

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Background The Syrian crisis has started eight years ago and has, directly and indirectly, affected all the aspects of the Syrians lives. A lot of new war-related factors contributed to change the socio-economic status, the demographical distribution and the ability to access the public health services. Moreover, the crisis created the biggest displacement crisis both inside and outside Syria. Therefore, it is important to study the prevalence of dental caries and oral health in these specific circumstances in order to build a database to assess and compare future results of preventive programs and to assess health and social needs of the communities affected by war or crisis. The aim of this research is to Study the level of oral health among children during the Syrian crisis, as well as the relation between oral health and socioeconomic status (SES). Methods A cross-sectional study to assess the oral health of children in Damascus city by using DMFT index and other dental indices. The data were collected from ten randomly selected schools covering all the areas of Damascus city, and the final sample size was 811 children. Results DMFT index was used to assess the oral health of the children. The average number was (3.36) among all children; 14% of the sample size had a good oral health, while 86% had at least one decayed, missed, or filled tooth. There was also a strong association between SES of the child and the oral health represented as DMFT Index ( P = 0.03), Pearson’s correlation test displayed an inverse association between the SES and oral health ( P = − 0.074). Conclusion This study highlights the impact of the Syrian crisis on the SES of the Syrian children and their oral health. Bad oral health has been recorded and it has a significant relation with the SES of the children.

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Congenital malformations and their impact on Oral Health-Related Quality of Life among Syrian children with cleft lip and/or palate

Cited by 12 publications

References 14 publications

Evaluation of the reliability and validity of the Early Childhood Oral Health Impact Scale (ECOHIS) questionnaire translated into Malagasy

Evaluation of the reliability and validity of the Early Childhood Oral Health Impact Scale (ECOHIS) questionnaire translated into Malagasy

Comparison of Oral Health–Related Quality of Life among Schoolchildren with and without Cleft Lip and/or Palate

Oral health and socio-economic status among children during Syrian crisis: a cross-sectional study

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