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The Early Childhood Oral Health Impact Scale (ECOHIS): psychometric properties and application on preschoolers.
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- Early Childhood Caries and Oral Health-Related Quality of Life in Preschool Children: A Systematic Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Review
- Assessment of Oral Health-Related Quality of Life in Children with Leukemia and Gingival Inflammation.Journal of personalized medicine · 2026Article
- Bothersome and Impactful Health Conditions in Children and Adolescents with Down Syndrome.The Journal of pediatrics · 2025Observational
- Validation of a Hebrew version of the Early Childhood Oral Health Impact Scale.Frontiers in oral health · 2025Article
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- Early Childhood Oral Health Impact Scale: Psychometric Evaluation in Portuguese Preschoolers.Acta stomatologica Croatica · 2024Article
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Abstract
Background: The concept of oral health related to quality of life involves the impact that oral health has on an individual's well-being. The Early Childhood Oral Health Impact Scale (ECOHIS) was developed to measure the impact of oral health problems on the lives of children and their families. Objective: To evaluate the psychometric properties of ECOHIS applied to mothers of preschool children and estimate the influence of demographic characteristics, caries experience, and plaque index on the ECOHIS score. Methods: The fit of ECOHIS to the data was assessed by confirmatory analysis. Chi-square for degrees of freedom ratio ( Results: A total of 371 children participated in the study. Mothers' mean age was 33.0 (SD = 7.04) years. The ECOHIS presented a good fit to the data ( Conclusion: The data obtained with the ECOHIS were valid, reliable, and invariant. Children with caries experience and from lower income families had a greater impact of oral problems.
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