Department of Oral Rehabilitation, School of Dentistry and Oral Health, College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Fiji National University, Suva, Fiji.
School of Public Health and Primary Care, Fiji National University, Suva, Fiji.
Health Qual Life Outcomes. 2022 Mar 19;20(1):45. doi: 10.1186/s12955-022-01953-7.
Oral health-related problems are highly prevalent and, like many other diseases, affect Quality of Life. Although most primary schools in Fiji have supervised school brushing programs and have regular screenings these preventive aspects are missing in secondary schools.
To assess the internal consistency reliability, face and content validity of the Child-OIDP questionnaire and determine the oral health-related quality of life in 15-year-olds in Suva, Fiji.
A cross-sectional prospective study was carried out on 15-year-old children from four secondary schools in Suva, Fiji from 2014 to 2015. All students enrolled in the 10th and 11th year of studies were included. Multi-stage cluster sampling was used to identify the participants and the sample size of 367 was calculated. The Child Oral Impact on Daily Performance (Child-OIDP) self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data and data was analyzed using Epi-Info (3.5.1).
A total of 281 students (76.6%) responded, of whom 47.0% experienced at least one impact. Cronbach's alpha for the Child-OIDP frequency items was 0.70 and the corrected item-total correlation ranged from 0.13 to 0.57. The most common performances that were affected were eating (27.8%) and relaxing (12.8%). Performances that were severely and most severely influenced were social contact (23.1%), smiling (16.7%) and relaxing (16.7%). The most common conditions leading to impacts were dental sensitivity (38.4%), dental caries (23.5%) and toothache (21.4%).
The original version of the Child-OIDP is a reliable index with acceptable internal consistency when used directly in the Fiji setting, however, further studies to validate the tool will be useful. Oral impacts were prevalent, but not severe.
口腔健康相关问题非常普遍，与许多其他疾病一样，会影响生活质量。斐济的大多数小学都有监督学校刷牙计划，并定期进行筛查，但中学却缺乏这些预防措施。
评估儿童口腔影响日常生活量表（Child-OIDP）的内部一致性信度、表面效度和内容效度，并确定斐济苏瓦 15 岁青少年的口腔健康相关生活质量。
2014 年至 2015 年，在斐济苏瓦的四所中学进行了一项横断面前瞻性研究，研究对象为 15 岁的儿童。所有就读于 10 年级和 11 年级的学生都被纳入研究。采用多阶段聚类抽样方法确定参与者，计算出 367 名样本量。采用儿童口腔影响日常生活量表（Child-OIDP）自填式问卷收集数据，使用 Epi-Info（3.5.1）进行数据分析。
共有 281 名学生（76.6%）做出回应，其中 47.0%的学生至少经历过一次影响。儿童口腔影响日常生活量表频率项目的克朗巴赫α系数为 0.70，校正后的项目总分相关系数范围为 0.13 至 0.57。受影响最常见的表现是进食（27.8%）和放松（12.8%）。受影响最严重和最严重的表现是社会接触（23.1%）、微笑（16.7%）和放松（16.7%）。导致影响的最常见情况是牙本质敏感（38.4%）、龋齿（23.5%）和牙痛（21.4%）。
在斐济环境中直接使用时，儿童口腔影响日常生活量表的原始版本是一个可靠的指标，具有可接受的内部一致性，但进一步验证该工具的有效性将是有益的。口腔影响普遍存在，但并不严重。
