Patients' awareness regarding the quality of their oral hygiene: development and validation of a new measurement instrument.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The present research aimed to develop and validate a standardised survey instrument for the assessment of patients' awareness of the quality of their oral hygiene performance.

Methods

A digital questionnaire was developed that assesses both patients' naïve self-perceptions of oral cleanliness (SPOC_n) after tooth brushing and patients' perceptions after being informed how oral cleanliness may be captured in dentistry (SPOC_d). Three studies (N = 56 adults, N = 66 adolescents and one of their parents, N = 24 university students) assessed the instrument's feasibility (patient reports), reliability (internal consistency), validity (correlation with other constructs; sensitivity to manipulation of actual tooth brushing), and the correlation with ac

SUBMITTER: Eidenhardt Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9773685 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature