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

ABSTRACT:

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. Its face and content validity was tested in two small pilot studies. In the main study, a convenience sample of 260 parents of 2- to 5-year-old children in Isfahan and Tehran were invited to complete the final Farsi version of the ECOHIS (F-ECOHIS) and answer two global self-rating questions ab

SUBMITTER: Jabarifar SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2858088 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature