Turkish Version of the Mastication Observation and Evaluation (MOE) Instrument: A Reliability and Validity Study in Children

The effect of early childhood caries on chewing function and tolerated food texture levels in preschool children

“…These results show that as oral health deteriorates in children, disruptions occur in oral motor behaviours necessary for efficient chewing, resulting in worse chewing performance. On the other hand, the median T‐MOE scores of children with s‐ECC groups in our study were lower than reported in the study by Serel et al 19 . for healthy children but higher than in children with cerebral palsy.…”

“…It has often been used in adults 28,29 . Two valid, reliable, clinically easy‐to‐use instruments are reported in the literature, which mainly focus on chewing function, benefit from standard scoring, complement each other and together provide a holistic approach; T‐MOE 19 and the KCPS 18 . While the KCPS shows the levels of chewing performance according to the sequence of oral movements during chewing, the MOE encompasses variety factors that are fundamental to chewing function, including movement of the lips, tongue and jaw, chewing duration, loss of food or saliva, number of swallows, and coordination of swallowing.…”

“…The total score was obtained by adding up the scores given to each item. Higher T‐MOE scores indicate better chewing function 19 …”

“…Higher T-MOE scores indicate better chewing function. 19 Shapiro-Wilk test, tested the normality of the distributions. The Pearson chi-square test was used to evaluate between the categorised independent variables and KCPS levels.…”

Instrumentos de evaluación de la deglución pediátrica: un reporte por fonoaudiólogos en Colombia y Chile

“…Dentro de la revisión de diferentes estudios en deglución pediátrica se evidencia gran diversidad de herramientas clínicas para realizar la evaluación de distintos aspectos relacionados con este proceso: Screening tool for feeding problems (Herramienta de Detección de Problemas de Alimentación) (STEP) (Matsona y Kuhn, 2001); The Montreal Children's Hospital Feeding Scale (Escala de alimentación del Montreal Children's Hospital) (Ramsay et al, 2011); The Pediatric Version of the Eating Assessment Tool (La versión pediátrica de la herramienta de evaluación de la alimentación) (PEDI -EAT -10) (Serel et al, 2017); The Pediatric assessment scale for severe feeding problems (La escala de evaluación pediátrica para problemas severos de alimentación) (PASSFP) (Crist et al, 2004); The Children's Eating Behavior Inventory (El inventario de Comportamiento Alimentario de los Niños) (CEBI) (Archer et al, 1991); The Behavioural Pediatric Feeding Assessment Scale (Escala de Evaluación de la Alimentación Pediátrica del Comportamiento) (BPFAS) (Crist y Napier-Phillips, 2001); The Mastication Observation and Evaluation (Instrumento para la observación y evaluación de la masticación) (MOE) (Remijn et al, 2013;Serel et al, 2019), Schedule for Oral-Motor Assessment (Programa de evaluación motora -oral) (SOMA) (Skuse et al, 1995); entre otros.…”