ArticleBMC oral health2018
Development and evaluation of CARIES-QC: a caries-specific measure of quality of life for children.
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- Measuring health‑ and oral health-related quality of life in secondary school pupils: a head‑to‑head psychometric comparison of CHU9D and CARIES-QC-U.BMC oral health · 2025Article
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- Clinical, individual and environmental factors related to children's health-related quality of life following treatment under general anaesthetic for dental caries: a path analysis.European archives of paediatric dentistry : official journal of the European Academy of Paediatric Dentistry · 2022Article
- Adolescent valuation of CARIES-QC-U: a child-centred preference-based measure of dental caries.Health and quality of life outcomes · 2022Article
- Discrete choice experiments or best-worst scaling? A qualitative study to determine the suitability of preference elicitation tasks in research with children and young people.Journal of patient-reported outcomes · 2021Article
- Evaluation of the ECOHIS and the CARIES-QC among an Australian "Aboriginal" population.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2021Article
- Selection and validation of a classification system for a child-centred preference-based measure of oral health-related quality of life specific to dental caries.Journal of patient-reported outcomes · 2020Article
- The Relationship between Caries-Specific Quality of Life and Generic Wellbeing in a Dutch Pediatric Population.Dentistry journal · 2019Article
- A Comparison of Three Child OHRQoL Measures.Dentistry journal · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundExisting paediatric oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) measures are generic instruments designed to evaluate a range of oral conditions. It has been found that disease-specific measures may be more adept at detecting subtle changes which occur following treatment of the condition in question. Furthermore, existing self-report OHRQoL measures have not involved children at all stages of development of the measure. The aim of this study was to develop a caries-specific measure of quality of life for children.
methodsThe first stage of the study involved a qualitative enquiry with children, aged 5-16 years, to inform the development of the measure. Children generated the potential items, contributed to item reduction and questionnaire design and participated in the testing of face and content validity. The resulting measure was evaluated in a cross-sectional validation study. Ethical approval was granted for the study.
resultsThe qualitative study found that children discussed a number of caries-related impacts which affected their daily lives. These were incorporated into a draft measure which was further refined following testing of face and content validity. This resulted in the production of the Caries Impacts and Experiences Questionnaire for Children (CARIES-QC), comprising 16 items and one global question. Two hundred participants with a mean (range) age of 8.1 (5-16) years took part in the further evaluation of CARIES-QC. Four items, which did not fit the Rasch model, were removed from further analysis. The remaining 12 items demonstrated good internal consistency (alpha = 0.9) and the total score showed significant correlations with the number of decayed teeth, presence of pain, pulpal involvement, the Child Perceptions Questionnaire (16-item short form) and the global score (p < 0.01, Spearman's rho).
conclusionIn conclusion, children's input allowed the development of a valid and reliable child-centred caries-specific quality of life measure. CARIES-QC can now be used to evaluate which interventions for dental caries are most effective in reducing impacts from the child's perspective.
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