Cross - cultural adaptation and preliminary validation of the Turkish version of the Early Childhood Oral Health Impact Scale among 5-6-year-old children

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 9, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Peker, Kadriye ^a   Uysal, Ömer ^b   Bermek, Gülçin ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b BEZMIALEM VAKIF UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Child; Oral health; Preschool; Quality of life; Reliability and validity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTENT VALIDITY; CONVERGENT VALIDITY; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL HEALTH; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; EARLY CHILDHOOD ORAL HEALTH IMPACT SCALE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; FACE VALIDITY; FEMALE; GINGIVA; HUMAN; INTERNAL RELIABILITY; MALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PARENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); VALIDITY; CULTURAL FACTOR; HEALTH; HEALTH SURVEY; INSTRUMENTATION; LANGUAGE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; STANDARD;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DENTAL CARIES; DMF INDEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; ORAL HEALTH; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TURKEY;

EID: 84055213689     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-9-118     Document Type: Article

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