Jankauskienė Birutė, Narbutaitė Julija, Kubilius Ričardas, Gleiznys Alvydas
Department of Oral Health and Paediatric Dentistry, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Lithuania.
Stomatologija. 2012;14(4):108-13.
The Early Childhood Oral Health Impact Scale (ECOHIS) is a parent--assessed oral health related quality of life measure developed to assess the impact of oral health problems on preschool children.
The aim of this study was to develop a Lithuanian version of the ECOHIS and evaluate its validity and reliability among preschool children in Lithuania.
A lithuanian version of ECOHIS (L-ECOHIS) was developed through a forward-backword translation. A cross-sectional study was performed to assess discriminant and convergent validity and internal consistency. Data was collected from 130 parents of 0-5 year-old children visiting the dental department. A subsample of parents filled the questionnaire again to assess the test-retest reliability.
Cronbach's alpha for the instrument was 0.869. Item-total correlation coefficients ranged from 0.389 to 0.797. Scores of the child and family sections were significantly correlated (P<0.001). The scale scores indicating worse quality of life were significantly associated with poor parental ratings of their child's oral health and problem-based dental attendance. The intra-class correlation coefficient was 0.98.
The L-ECOHIS is a valid and reliable measure to assess OHRQoL of 0-5 year-old children with Lithuanian speaking parents.
幼儿口腔健康影响量表（ECOHIS）是一种由家长评估的与口腔健康相关的生活质量测量工具，旨在评估口腔健康问题对学龄前儿童的影响。
本研究的目的是开发立陶宛语版的ECOHIS，并评估其在立陶宛学龄前儿童中的有效性和可靠性。
通过正向-反向翻译开发了立陶宛语版的ECOHIS（L-ECOHIS）。进行了一项横断面研究，以评估区分效度、聚合效度和内部一致性。从130名带0至5岁儿童到牙科科室就诊的家长处收集数据。一部分家长再次填写问卷以评估重测信度。
该工具的Cronbach's α系数为0.869。项目-总分相关系数范围为0.389至0.797。儿童和家庭部分的得分显著相关（P<0.001）。表明生活质量较差的量表得分与家长对孩子口腔健康的低评分以及基于问题的牙科就诊显著相关。组内相关系数为0.98。
L-ECOHIS是一种有效且可靠的测量工具，可用于评估父母讲立陶宛语的0至5岁儿童的口腔健康相关生活质量。
