Validation of the Hungarian version of the General Oral Health Assessment Index (GOHAI) in clinical and general populations.

ABSTRACT:

Background

COSMIN (Consensus-based Standards for the selection of health Measurement INstruments) provides a framework for selecting and validating patient-reported outcome measurements (PROMs). This study aims to validate the Hungarian version of the GOHAI and, for the first time, to assess its Standard Error of Measurement (SEM), Smallest Detectable Change (SDC), and Measurement Invariance (MI) across general and clinical populations as well as different age groups, following COSMIN guidelines.

Materials and methods

The translation was performed using a forward-backward process. A mixed sample (n = 306) was recruited in Budapest from May 2023 to February 2024, consisting of the general population (45.1%), recruited from health kiosks and a nursing home, and the clinical po

SUBMITTER: Oszlanszky J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11575072 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature