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ArticleJournal of personalized medicine2022

Validity and Reliability of the Dental Neglect Scale among Romanian Adults.

Beatrice Adriana Balgiu, Ruxandra Sfeatcu, Christina Mihai, Roxana Romanița Ilici, Ioanina Parlatescu, Laura Tribus

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Article in Journal of personalized medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Beatrice Adriana BalgiuDepartment of Career and Educational Training, University Politehnica of Bucharest, 313 Splaiul Independenţei, 060042 Bucharest, Romania.ORCID 0000-0002-4200-2675
Ruxandra SfeatcuDepartment of Oral Health and Community Dentistry, Faculty of Dental Medicine, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 17-21 Calea Plevnei Street, 010221 Bucharest, Romania.ORCID 0000-0001-9391-7341
Christina MihaiDepartment of Preventive Dentistry, Faculty of Dental Medicine, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 17-21 Calea Plevnei Street, 010221 Bucharest, Romania.
Roxana Romanița IliciDepartment of Prosthesis Technology and Dental Materials, Faculty of Dental Medicine, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 17-21 Calea Plevnei Street, Sector 1, 010221 Bucharest, Romania.ORCID 0000-0003-1775-6018
Ioanina ParlatescuDepartment of Oral Pathology, Faculty of Dental Medicine, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 17-21, Calea Plevnei Street, 020021 Bucharest, Romania.ORCID 0000-0001-7658-9331
Laura TribusDepartment of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Dental Medicine, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 17-21, Calea Plevnei Street, 020021 Bucharest, Romania.
Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy · ROUniversitatea Națională de Știință și Tehnologie Politehnica București · RO

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Dental Neglect Scale (DNS) is a well-known measure for assessing behaviours and attitudes related to oral health. However, the factor inconsistency revealed by the literature involves further investigations. The study focuses on the validation of the DNS in the case of a sample of the adult population from Romania. In this regard, data were collected online from 872 adults (616 females and 256 males). DNS reliability was examined from the perspective of internal consistency. Convergent validity was performed by associating DNS with different scales from the oral health field. In order to examine and confirm the factorial structure, the sample was broken down into two subsamples which made the subject of the exploratory factorial analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factorial analysis (CFA), respectively. DNS-RO is positively associated with the scale which measures the values related to oral health (OHVS) and negatively with those that assess the impact of the oral health on life quality (OHIP-14), the distrust of the benefits of oral health services (R-DBS), and reduced need for oral care (DIS). The Cronbach's α = 0.70, McDonald's ω = 0.70 and CR = 0.77 are acceptable. Both EFA and CFA (χ

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dental neglectRomanian adultsvalidation

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