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The assessment of oral health related quality of life for children with malocclusion in comparison with their mothers | ||
| Journal of baghdad college of dentistry | ||
| Article 1, Volume 23, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 81-85 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Hayder J. Attar; Yusir A. J. Al-Shamma; Abeer B. Mahmoud | ||
| Abstract | ||
| ABSTRACTBackground: The quality of life measures have been widely developed and used in dentistry because of theirimportance in measuring the child and public perceptions for oral health. The purpose of this study was to comparethe responses to child perceptions questionnaire for measuring oral health related quality of life and their motherperceptions questionnaire.Materials and methods: The study was conducted on 80 pairs of mothers and their children, aged 11to14 years; withmalocclusion according to orthodontic index of treatment need dental health component. The children and theirmothers completed the questionnaire independently.Results: The mean ratings were similar for total scores (children, 19.9; mothers, 19.1), oral symptoms (children, 4.9;mothers, 4.2), and social well-being (children, 3.9; mothers, 4.4). However, the mothers group had a lower meanscore for functional limitations (children, 5.1; mothers, 3.2) and a higher mean score for emotional well-being(children, 5.3; mothers,6.8). The correlations between children's and mothers' responses ranged from rs = 0.652 foremotional well-being to rs = 0.422 for functional limitations. There were good correlations between their responses toglobal (rs = 0.622) and life overall (rs = 0.499) questionsConclusions: The maternal opinions were similar to those of their children concerning the impact of malocclusion onoverall aspects of their children life, but the mothers overestimated the emotional impact of malocclusion on theirchildren's life.Keywords: oral-health, quality of life, child. (J Bagh Coll Dentistry 2011;23(1):81-85). | ||
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