Abstract:
Background: Oral-Health-Related Quality of Life (OHRQoL) instruments are useful outcome measures in dental health services research; however, there are no reports of the use OHRQoL measures in evaluating the outcome of basic dental care in children anywhere. Aim: The aims of this study are to evaluate the responsiveness of the Khmer version of the Child Perceptions Questionnaire(11-14) (CPQ(11-14)) and to describe changes in OHRQoL associated with the provision of basic dental care. Design: A pre-test/post-test design, with a clinical convenience sample of children aged from 8 to 14 years of age who received basic dental care from a local nongovernmental organisation (NGO). Results: Of the 140 children in the baseline sample, 116 (82.9%) were followed up. The mean change in CPQ(11-14) overall score for those with caries was 1.7, representing a small improvement in OHRQoL. There was a moderate (one in three) statistically significant reduction in the prevalence of impacts across thewhole sample (P<0.001; McNemar test), and one in five improved by the minimally important difference (MID) of five-scale points. Conclusions: The Khmer version of the CPQ(11-14) appears to be a valid and responsive measure for assessing treatment-associated changes in OHRQoL inchildren with dental caries in Cambodia. Source: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PAEDIATRIC DENTISTRY Status: A paid open access option is available for this journal at Wiley Please cite as: Turton BJ, Thomson WM, Page LAF, Saub R, Ishak AR.Responsiveness of the child perceptions questionnaire 11-14 for Cambodian children undergoing basic dental care. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PAEDIATRIC DENTISTRY, 2015; 25(1): 2-8 .
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