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Reliability and validity of self-assessment of mouth opening: a validation study

BACKGROUND: The objective of this study was to evaluate the reproducibility and validity of patients’ mouth opening measurements in a research setting. METHODS: Firstly, 68 patients made repeated self-measurements of mouth opening using a cardboard scale (Therabite Range of Motion Scale – TRMS). Sec...

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Autores principales: Saund, Daniel Satnam Singh, Pearson, David, Dietrich, Thomas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3534492/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23145559
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6831-12-48
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description BACKGROUND: The objective of this study was to evaluate the reproducibility and validity of patients’ mouth opening measurements in a research setting. METHODS: Firstly, 68 patients made repeated self-measurements of mouth opening using a cardboard scale (Therabite Range of Motion Scale – TRMS). Secondly, 80 patients enrolled in a clinical trial on morbidity after lower third molar surgery, made daily assessments during the postoperative week. Patients’ measurements were then compared to gold-standard clinicians’ measurements. RESULTS: Reliability of patients’ measurements was excellent with an intraclass correlation coefficient of 0.92. The patient’s measurements correlated well with the gold-standard clinician’s measurements, both for the first 68 patients (Pearson’s rho ranging from 0.86 to 0.90, p < 0.0001) as well as for the 80 patients enrolled in the clinical trial (rho = 0.82, p < 0.0001 at day 2, rho = 0.83, p < 0.0001 at final visit). CONCLUSIONS: TRMS can be used by patients to produce reproducible and valid mouth opening measurements.
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spelling pubmed-35344922013-01-03 Reliability and validity of self-assessment of mouth opening: a validation study Saund, Daniel Satnam Singh Pearson, David Dietrich, Thomas BMC Oral Health Research Article BACKGROUND: The objective of this study was to evaluate the reproducibility and validity of patients’ mouth opening measurements in a research setting. METHODS: Firstly, 68 patients made repeated self-measurements of mouth opening using a cardboard scale (Therabite Range of Motion Scale – TRMS). Secondly, 80 patients enrolled in a clinical trial on morbidity after lower third molar surgery, made daily assessments during the postoperative week. Patients’ measurements were then compared to gold-standard clinicians’ measurements. RESULTS: Reliability of patients’ measurements was excellent with an intraclass correlation coefficient of 0.92. The patient’s measurements correlated well with the gold-standard clinician’s measurements, both for the first 68 patients (Pearson’s rho ranging from 0.86 to 0.90, p < 0.0001) as well as for the 80 patients enrolled in the clinical trial (rho = 0.82, p < 0.0001 at day 2, rho = 0.83, p < 0.0001 at final visit). CONCLUSIONS: TRMS can be used by patients to produce reproducible and valid mouth opening measurements. BioMed Central 2012-11-12 /pmc/articles/PMC3534492/ /pubmed/23145559 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6831-12-48 Text en Copyright ©2012 Saund et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Reliability and validity of self-assessment of mouth opening: a validation study
title_sort reliability and validity of self-assessment of mouth opening: a validation study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3534492/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23145559
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6831-12-48
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