%0 Journal Article
%T The PedsQL£¿ Oral Health Scale: feasibility, reliability and validity of the Brazilian Portuguese version
%A Cristiane B Bendo
%A Saul M Paiva
%A Claudia M Viegas
%A Miriam P Vale
%A James W Varni
%J Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
%D 2012
%I BioMed Central
%R 10.1186/1477-7525-10-42
%X The PedsQL£¿ Oral Health Scale was forward-backward translated and cross-culturally adapted for the Brazilian Portuguese language. In order to assess the feasibility, reliability and validity of the Brazilian version of the instrument, a study was carried out in Belo Horizonte with 208 children and adolescents between 2 and 18£¿years-of-age and their parents. Clinical evaluation of dental caries, socioeconomic information and the Brazilian versions of the PedsQL£¿ Oral Health Scale, PedsQL£¿ 4.0 Generic Core Scales, Child Perceptions Questionnaire (CPQ11-14 and CPQ8-10) and Parental-Caregiver Perception Questionnaire (P-CPQ) were administered. Statistical analysis included feasibility (missing values), confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), internal consistency reliability, and test-retest intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC) of the PedsQL£¿ Oral Health Scale.There were no missing data for both child self-report and parent proxy-report on the Brazilian version of the PedsQL£¿ Oral Health Scale. The CFA showed that the five items of child self-report and parent proxy-report loaded on a single construct. The Cronbach's alpha coefficients for child/adolescent and parent oral health instruments were 0.65 and 0.59, respectively. The test-retest reliability (ICC) for child self-report and parent proxy-report were 0.90 [95% confidence interval (CI)£¿=£¿0.86-0.93] and 0.86 (95%CI£¿=£¿0.81-0.90), respectively. The PedsQL£¿ Oral Health Scale demonstrated acceptable construct validity, convergent validity and discriminant validity.These results supported the feasibility, reliability and validity of the Brazilian version of the PedsQL£¿ Oral Health Scale for child self-report for ages 5¨C18£¿years-old and parent proxy-report for ages 2¨C18£¿years-old children.
%K Oral health
%K PedsQL
%K Quality of life
%K Validation
%K Child
%K Adolescent
%U http://www.hqlo.com/content/10/1/42/abstract