Antunes Lívia Azeredo Alves, Andrade Marcia Rejane Thomas Canabarro, Leão Anna Thereza Thomé, Maia Lucianne Cople, Luiz Ronir Raggio
Department of Specific Formation, School of Dentistry, Fluminense Federal University, Nova Friburgo, Brazil.
Pediatr Dent. 2013 Jan-Feb;35(1):37-42.
The purpose of this study was to perform a systematic review that evaluated changes in the quality of life (QoL) of children and adolescents younger than 14 years old after oral health interventions.
The search strategy was based on OVID, PubMed, VHL, Cochrane, and Google Scholar databases and was completed by a manual cross-reference search. The keywords used for the search were "child" and "oral health" and "quality of life"; for Google Scholar, "before and after treatment" were also used. Articles that met the inclusion criteria were classified considering methodological quality and risk of bias.
A total of 1,044 articles were initially retrieved; after excluding duplicate abstracts, 13 articles remained from the electronic search, and the manual search of their references detected 14 new articles. The exclusion criteria eliminated 16 of these 27 articles, leaving 11 for quality assessment. Of these, 2 were classified as high, 7 as moderate, and 2 as low methodological quality, and the majority of them had moderate risk of bias. Thus, our final selection was reduced to 9 articles for final analysis.
The level of evidence was moderate and detected changes in the impact on the quality of life of children and adolescents younger than 14 years old after interventions related to oral health.
本研究旨在进行一项系统评价，评估14岁以下儿童和青少年在口腔健康干预后的生活质量（QoL）变化。
检索策略基于OVID、PubMed、VHL、Cochrane和谷歌学术数据库，并通过手动交叉引用检索完成。检索使用的关键词为“儿童”、“口腔健康”和“生活质量”；对于谷歌学术，还使用了“治疗前后”。符合纳入标准的文章根据方法学质量和偏倚风险进行分类。
最初共检索到1044篇文章；排除重复摘要后，电子检索剩余13篇文章，对其参考文献的手动检索又发现14篇新文章。排除标准排除了这27篇文章中的16篇，剩下11篇进行质量评估。其中，2篇被归类为高质量，7篇为中等质量，2篇为低质量，且大多数文章存在中等偏倚风险。因此，我们最终选择了9篇文章进行最终分析。
证据水平为中等，发现与口腔健康相关的干预措施对14岁以下儿童和青少年的生活质量有影响变化。
