Dharmani Charan Kamal Kaur, Dhillon Jatinder Kaur, Mathur Vijay Prakash
Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Regional Institute of Medical Sciences, Imphal, India.
Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Maulana Azad Institute of Dental Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Indian J Dent Res. 2019 Sep-Oct;30(5):742-746. doi: 10.4103/ijdr.IJDR_5_18.
Early childhood caries can affect quality of life (QoL) in children and their parents. The Oral Health related Early Childhood Quality of Life scale (OH-ECQoL) is used for measuring oral health-related QoL in North Indian preschool children. Same tool cannot be utilized only by linguistic translation in culturally different Manipuri population.
The aim of this study is to translate OH-ECQoL tool into Manipuri language and to reestablish its psychometric properties.
The OH-ECQoL tool was translated into Manipuri language by forward-backward translation. The questionnaire was tested on 300 parents/primary caretakers of healthy children with the age range of 24-71 months. It was also retested on 20 parents after a gap of two weeks. Demographic characteristics and socioeconomic status were recorded in a predesigned proforma. Oral health status of children was recorded as per WHO oral health assessment form (2004).
The data were tabulated using Microsoft Excel 2010 and analyzed using SPSS version 11 software.
The tool possessed good internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha = 0.836) and test-retest reliability (ICC = 0.94). Parents of children who scored higher on Manipuri-OH-ECQoL questionnaire perceived their children's general and oral health as poor when compared to children with lower scores, proving acceptable concurrent validity scores. Spearman's correlation coefficient between child and family impact scores of 0.668 is supporting convergent validity, which means that dental problems affect QoL of both children and their parents.
The translated Manipuri-OH-ECQoL tool was found to be adequately valid, reliable, and repeatable without affecting the psychometric properties of the original tool. This suggests that it can be used in studies assessing the impact of oral diseases on QoL of preschool children and their families in Manipur.
幼儿龋齿会影响儿童及其父母的生活质量（QoL）。口腔健康相关的幼儿生活质量量表（OH-ECQoL）用于测量北印度学龄前儿童与口腔健康相关的生活质量。在文化不同的曼尼普尔人群中，不能仅通过语言翻译来使用相同的工具。
本研究的目的是将OH-ECQoL工具翻译成曼尼普尔语，并重新确立其心理测量特性。
通过前后翻译将OH-ECQoL工具翻译成曼尼普尔语。该问卷在300名年龄在24至71个月的健康儿童的父母/主要照顾者中进行了测试。两周后，对20名父母进行了重新测试。在预先设计的表格中记录了人口统计学特征和社会经济地位。根据世界卫生组织口腔健康评估表（2004年）记录儿童的口腔健康状况。
使用Microsoft Excel 2010将数据制成表格，并使用SPSS 11版软件进行分析。
该工具具有良好的内部一致性（Cronbach's alpha = 0.836）和重测信度（ICC = 0.94）。与得分较低的儿童相比，在曼尼普尔语-OH-ECQoL问卷上得分较高的儿童的父母认为他们孩子的总体健康和口腔健康较差，证明了可接受的同时效度得分。儿童与家庭影响得分之间的斯皮尔曼相关系数为0.668，支持了收敛效度，这意味着牙齿问题会影响儿童及其父母的生活质量。
翻译后的曼尼普尔语-OH-ECQoL工具被发现具有足够的效度、信度和可重复性，且不影响原始工具的心理测量特性。这表明它可用于评估口腔疾病对曼尼普尔学龄前儿童及其家庭生活质量影响的研究。
