Oral helserelatert livskvalitet blant barn og ungdom: Gyldighet og måleegenskaper av to instrumenter i norsk versjon
Sammanfattning
.The aims were i) to evaluate whether two instruments, «Early Childhood Oral Health Impact Scale» (ECOHIS) and «Child Oral Impact on Daily Performances» (Child-OIDP), showed satisfactory validity and reliable measuring qualities or not, among children and adolescents of ages 3 - 11 years and 12 - 18 years, ii) to estimate the prevalence of reduced OHRQoL when these instruments were used. ECOHIS was given to parents following their children (3 - 11 years) for dental appointments while adolescents (12 - 18 years) were offered an interviewbased Child-OIDP at the clinic. During the study, undertaken in 2015 at the Institute of Clinical Odontology, University of Bergen, 200 children were tested with ECOHIS and 145 adolescents with Child-OIDP. The instruments showed from moderate to good psychometric properties. ECOHIS discriminated well between parents who evaluated their children's oral health as good/bad and between those who were satisfied/dissatisfied with the appearance of their children's teeth. Child-OIDP discriminated between those who were satisfied/dissatisfied with the appearance of their teeth. For the children, 71.0 % of parents reported one or more "Child impacts» and 47.9 % one or more "Family impacts», while 42.7 % of adolescents reported problems with one or more daily activities due to mouth or teeth. The results suggest that both scales can be used under Norwegian conditions to measure OHRQoL among children and adolescents.