Quality Appraisal of Child Oral Health-Related Quality of Life Measures: A Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Children's oral health-related quality of life (COHQoL) measures are well known and widely used. However, rigorous systematic reviews of these measures and analyses of their quality are in absence.

Objectives

To systematically review and quantitatively assess the quality of COHQoL measures through a scoping review.

Data sources

Systematic literature search of PubMed, CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature), EMBASE (Excerpta Medica database), HaPI (Health and Psychosocial Instruments), and DOSS (Dentistry and Oral Sciences Source).

Study eligibility

The measure's focus was COHQoL; the child age ranged from 5 to 14 years; the publication was either a research article or a systematic review and related to caries; and it was wri

SUBMITTER: Yang C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7079328 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature