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Screening preschool children with toothache: validation of the Brazilian version of the Dental Discomfort Questionnaire
BACKGROUND: The Dental Discomfort Questionnaire (DDQ) is an observational instrument intended to measure dental discomfort and/or pain in children under 5 years of age. This study aimed to validate a previously cross-culturally adapted version of DDQ in a Brazilian children sample. METHODS: Particip...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3996021/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24593691 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7525-12-30 |
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author | Daher, Anelise Versloot, Judith Leles, Cláudio Rodrigues Costa, Luciane Rezende |
author_facet | Daher, Anelise Versloot, Judith Leles, Cláudio Rodrigues Costa, Luciane Rezende |
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description | BACKGROUND: The Dental Discomfort Questionnaire (DDQ) is an observational instrument intended to measure dental discomfort and/or pain in children under 5 years of age. This study aimed to validate a previously cross-culturally adapted version of DDQ in a Brazilian children sample. METHODS: Participants included 263 children (58.6% boys, mean age 43.5 months) that underwent a dental examination to assess dental caries, and their parent that filled out the cross-culturally adapted DDQ on their behalf. Exploratory factor analysis (principal component analysis form) and psychometric tests were done to assess instrument’s dimensionality and reliability. RESULTS: Exploratory factor analysis revealed a multidimensional instrument with 3 domains: ‘eating and sleeping problems’ (Cronbach’s alpha 0.81), ‘earache problems’ (alpha 0.75), and ‘problems with brushing teeth’ (alpha 0.78). The assessment had excellent stability (weighted-kappa varying from 0.68 to 0.97). Based on the factor analysis, the model with all 7 items included only in the first domain (named DDQ-B) was further explored. The items and total median score of the DDQ-B were related to parent-reported toothache and the number of decayed teeth, demonstrating good construct and discriminant validities. CONCLUSIONS: DDQ-B was proven a reliable pain assessment tool to screen this group of Brazilian children for caries-related toothache, with good psychometric properties. |
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spelling | pubmed-39960212014-04-24 Screening preschool children with toothache: validation of the Brazilian version of the Dental Discomfort Questionnaire Daher, Anelise Versloot, Judith Leles, Cláudio Rodrigues Costa, Luciane Rezende Health Qual Life Outcomes Research BACKGROUND: The Dental Discomfort Questionnaire (DDQ) is an observational instrument intended to measure dental discomfort and/or pain in children under 5 years of age. This study aimed to validate a previously cross-culturally adapted version of DDQ in a Brazilian children sample. METHODS: Participants included 263 children (58.6% boys, mean age 43.5 months) that underwent a dental examination to assess dental caries, and their parent that filled out the cross-culturally adapted DDQ on their behalf. Exploratory factor analysis (principal component analysis form) and psychometric tests were done to assess instrument’s dimensionality and reliability. RESULTS: Exploratory factor analysis revealed a multidimensional instrument with 3 domains: ‘eating and sleeping problems’ (Cronbach’s alpha 0.81), ‘earache problems’ (alpha 0.75), and ‘problems with brushing teeth’ (alpha 0.78). The assessment had excellent stability (weighted-kappa varying from 0.68 to 0.97). Based on the factor analysis, the model with all 7 items included only in the first domain (named DDQ-B) was further explored. The items and total median score of the DDQ-B were related to parent-reported toothache and the number of decayed teeth, demonstrating good construct and discriminant validities. CONCLUSIONS: DDQ-B was proven a reliable pain assessment tool to screen this group of Brazilian children for caries-related toothache, with good psychometric properties. BioMed Central 2014-03-04 /pmc/articles/PMC3996021/ /pubmed/24593691 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7525-12-30 Text en Copyright © 2014 Daher 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 credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Daher, Anelise Versloot, Judith Leles, Cláudio Rodrigues Costa, Luciane Rezende Screening preschool children with toothache: validation of the Brazilian version of the Dental Discomfort Questionnaire |
title | Screening preschool children with toothache: validation of the Brazilian version of the Dental Discomfort Questionnaire |
title_full | Screening preschool children with toothache: validation of the Brazilian version of the Dental Discomfort Questionnaire |
title_fullStr | Screening preschool children with toothache: validation of the Brazilian version of the Dental Discomfort Questionnaire |
title_full_unstemmed | Screening preschool children with toothache: validation of the Brazilian version of the Dental Discomfort Questionnaire |
title_short | Screening preschool children with toothache: validation of the Brazilian version of the Dental Discomfort Questionnaire |
title_sort | screening preschool children with toothache: validation of the brazilian version of the dental discomfort questionnaire |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3996021/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24593691 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7525-12-30 |
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