ORAL HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE IN YOUTH

青少年口腔健康相关的生活质量

• 批准号: 6927326
• 负责人: AVRON SPIRO
• 金额: $ 12.03万
• 依托单位: BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-08-01 至 2008-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6927326
• 关键词: African American; Hispanic Americans; adolescence (12-20); attitude; behavioral /social science research tag; child (0-11); clinical research; dental survey; disease /disorder proneness /risk; evaluation /testing; family structure /dynamics; health behavior; human subject; interview; locus of control; method development; nonEnglish language; oral health; pediatrics; preventive dentistry; psychological stressor; quality of life; questionnaires; racial /ethnic difference; statistics /biometry

Oral health-related quality of life (OQOL) concerns the impact of oral health on the social and psychological well-being and the daily functioning of children and their families. Although several measures of OQOL exist for use with adults, there are no comparable measures of children. This project will develop a set of measures of pediatric oral health-related quality of life (POQOL), suitable for use with children and adolescents, that assesses the impact of oral health on both children and their families. To accomplish this task, the following aims are proposed: 1) Develop, refine and validate a measure of OQOL for use with children and adolescents; 2) For each of the four age-appropriate versions of the OQOL instrument, develop a comparable Spanish-language version; 3) Conduct further validation of all English and Spanish instruments to assess their sensitivity to change over time to responsiveness to interventions; 4) Combine the POQOL assessment with other clinical, demographic and psychosocial measures to explore potential sources of disparities in oral health; and 5) create a short version of the POQOL measures for screening purposes. Patient focus groups will aid in item development and pre-testing of measures. Reliability will be determined through re-testing, and validity by examining the relationship between POQOL and established measures of pediatric health and health-related quality of life. Regression analyses will be used to examine the relationship between POQOL, psychosocial factors and oral health disparities in children. The resulting POQOL measures will be used in analyses of data collected by other projects in this Program Proposal, and more generally can be used to assess oral quality of life in population surveys, as outcome measures in clinical trials, and in clinical practice to evaluate the impact of interventions.

与口腔健康相关的生活质量（OQOL）涉及口腔健康对儿童及其家人的社会和心理健康以及日常运作的影响。尽管有多种OQOL的方法可与成年人一起使用，但没有可比的儿童措施。该项目将开发一系列与儿童和青少年一起使用的小儿口腔健康相关生活质量（POQOL）的度量，以评估口腔健康对儿童及其家人的影响。为了完成这项任务，提出了以下目的：1）开发，完善和验证OQOL的量度供儿童和青少年使用； 2）对于OQOL乐器的四个适合年龄段的版本中的每一个，都会开发可比的西班牙语版本； 3）对所有英语和西班牙工具进行进一步验证，以评估其随着时间的推移而改变的敏感性，以对干预措施的反应能力； 4）将POQOL评估与其他临床，人口统计学和社会心理措施相结合，以探讨口腔健康差异的潜在来源； 5）为筛查目的创建一个简短的POQOL措施。患者焦点小组将有助于项目开发和预先测试。可靠性将通过重新测试和有效性来确定，并通过检查POQOL和既定的小儿健康和与健康相关的生活质量的措施之间的关系。回归分析将用于检查儿童POQOL，心理社会因素和口腔健康差异之间的关系。由此产生的POQOL措施将用于该计划建议中其他项目收集的数据的分析，并且更普遍可用于评估人口调查中的口腔生活质量，作为临床试验的结果指标，以及在临床实践中评估干预措施的影响。