ArticleQuality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation2021
Evaluation of the ECOHIS and the CARIES-QC among an Australian "Aboriginal" population.
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- Early Childhood Oral Health Impact Scale (ECOHIS) questionnaire: reliability generalization meta-analysis of Cronbach's alpha.BMC oral health · 2025Pooled it
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- The Effectiveness of the Use of Silver Fluoride and Teledentistry to Manage and Prevent Childhood Caries Among Aboriginal Children in Remote Communities: Protocol for a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2025Article
- Oral Health-Related Quality of Life in Children at a Pediatric Emergency Dental Service During the Start of COVID-19.Dentistry journal · 2025Article
- Comparison of the early childhood oral health impact scale (ECOHIS-4D) and EuroQol-5D-Y for measuring oral health-related quality of life utility in children.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Association between Dental Fear and Children's Oral Health-Related Quality of Life.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- A Silver Fluoride Intervention to Improve Oral Health Trajectories of Young Indigenous Australians: Protocol for a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2023Article
- The caries impacts and experiences questionnaire for Turkish children by age groups'.BMC oral health · 2023Article
- Community Engagement and Psychometric Methods in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Patient-Reported Outcome Measures and Surveys-A Scoping Review and Critical Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
purposeAn evaluation of the reliability and validity of two child oral health-related quality of life (COHRQoL) measures among Australian Aboriginal children who participated in a randomised trial was undertaken.
methodsStudy participants completed the Early Childhood Oral Health Impact Scale (ECOHIS) and the Caries Impacts and Experiences Questionnaire for Children (CARIES-QC). The questionnaires were completed a second time to test the scales' test-retest reliability. Internal consistency, convergent and discriminant validity were evaluated through Cronbach's alpha, correlation of the scale scores with the global oral health evaluation, and comparison of scale scores among children with varying levels of caries experience, respectively.
resultsWorse COHRQoL was reported by parents who rated their child's oral health as poor and by children who rated their teeth as being a lot of problem. Cronbach's alpha for the child impact section (CIS), family impact section (FIS), total ECOHIS score and the total CARIES-QC scale were 0.88, 0.81, 0.91 and 0.84, respectively. Spearman's correlations between scale scores and global oral health ratings of the CIS, FIS, total ECOHIS and the CARIES-QC were 0.42, 0.34, 0.45 and 0.70, respectively, p < 0.001. The Kruskal-Wallis test of scale scores with grouped caries experience was statistically significant, p < 0.005. Test-retest reliabilities for the ECOHIS were CIS ICC = 0.91, FIS ICC = 0.89, total ECOHIS ICC = 0.93 and for the CARIES-QC, ICC = 0.61.
conclusionsBoth the ECOHIS and the CARIES-QC were reliable and valid scales for use among an Australian Aboriginal population for assessing COHRQoL of preschool children.
trial registrationACTRN12616001537448, date of registration-08 November 2016.
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