Validation of a Farsi version of the early childhood oral health impact scale (F-ECOHIS).

Background: The Early Childhood Oral Health Impact Scale (ECOHIS) has recently been developed to assess oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) of pre-school children in English speaking communities. This study aimed to translate the ECOHIS into Farsi and test its psychometric properties for use on 2- to 5-year-old children of Farsi speaking Iranian families.

Methods: EHOHIS questionnaire was translated into Farsi using a standardized forward-backward linguistic translation method.