Can oral health-related quality of life measures substitute for normative needs assessments in 11 to 12-year-old children?

Objectives: 1) assess the relationship between a measure of condition-specific oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) and the related normative need for dental treatments, and 2) test the diagnostic validity of the condition-specific OHRQoL measure for specific dental conditions in a group of primary school children.

Methods: A cross-sectional study of all 11 to 12 year-olds carried out in a municipal area of Suphanburi province, Thailand. 1034 children (91.

Validation of an English version of the Child-OIDP index, an oral health-related quality of life measure for children.

Background: To evaluate the psychometric properties of the Child-OIDP for use among children in the UK and report on the prevalence of oral impacts in a sample of schoolchildren in Westminster.

Methods: Children aged 10-11 years in the final year of primary school (year 6) were selected from seven schools where annual screenings are carried out. A total of 228 children participated (99% response rate).

A socio-dental approach to assessing children's orthodontic needs.

Traditional methods of assessing orthodontic treatment need using mainly clinical measures are inadequate and would be improved by integrating normative, oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL), and behavioural propensity measures. This study aimed to develop and test a socio-dental system of orthodontic needs assessment, and to compare normative and socio-dental estimates of orthodontic need. The socio-dental system integrates three types of need: normative need (NN), impact-related need (IRN) and propensity-related need (PRN).

A sociodental approach to assessing children's oral health needs: integrating an oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) measure into oral health service planning.

Objective: We adopted a sociodental approach to assess the real dental needs of Thai primary school children, and integrated an oral health-related quality of life measure (OHRQoL) into oral health service planning. We then compared the results of this sociodental assessment with standard estimates of a child's oral health needs.

Methods: We developed a new model of sociodental needs assessment and used it to assess the level of impact that various oral health conditions have on the everyday lives of school children.

The prevalence and severity of oral impacts on daily performances in Thai primary school children.

Background: Traditional methods of measuring oral health mainly use clinical dental indices and have been complemented by oral health related quality of life (OHRQoL) measures. Most OHRQoL studies have been on adults and elderly populations. There are no systematic OHRQoL studies of a population-based sample of children.

Developing and evaluating an oral health-related quality of life index for children; the CHILD-OIDP.

Objective: To develop an oral health-related quality of life index in Thai children and evaluate its psychometric properties.

Design: Cross-sectional study of children aged 11-12 years, attending the final year of primary school (grade-six). Development and evaluation process was conducted on non-random sample in U-thong District, Suphan-buri province, Thailand.