Senses and Sciences (Mar 2014)

Prevalence of oral impacts and validity of the Child-Oral Impacts on DailyPerformance (OIDP): pilot study of 10-11 year-old children in Italy

  • Fabrizio Guerra,
  • Georgios Tsakos,
  • Denise Corridore,
  • Gianna Maria Nardi,
  • Gianni Di Giorgio,
  • Gian Luca Di Tanna,
  • Livia Ottolenghi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.14616/sands-2014-1-1823
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 1, no. 1
pp. 18 – 23

Abstract

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Aim: The Child-Oral Impacts on Daily Performance (OIDP) assesses the impacts of oral health problems on the daily activities ofchildren. Objectives of this study were to cross-culturally adapt the Child-OIDP for use among Italian children and provide initialevidence on its reliability and validity in a sample of 10-11 year-olds. Materials and Method: The Italian Child-OIDP was administered to a convenience sample of 10-11-year-old 5th graders of“Giò Leonardo di Bona” Public School in Cutro (Italy). Informed positive consent was sought and obtained from the participants’parents. Analyses were performed using SAS statistical package; reliability testing referred to internal consistency that was evaluatedusing the Cronbach’s alpha, alpha if item deleted, and inter-item and item-total correlation coefficients. Result: To provide initial evidence for the evaluation of the psychometric properties of the Italian Child-OIDP, we invited 103 10-11-year-old schoolchildren and 97 participated in the study (response rate = 94.2%), 50 boys (51.5%) and 47 girls (48.5%).Almost all children (95.87%) reported that they had experienced at least one problem with their teeth or mouth in the past 3months. All item-total correlation were above 0.20 and Cronbach's alpha was 0.59. Higher Child-OIDP scores were significantlyassociated with worse perceptions in terms of oral health, general health and satisfaction with oral health status, but not withperceived dental treatment needs. Analyses were performed using SAS statistical package; reliability testing referred to internalconsistency that was evaluated using the Cronbach’s alpha, alpha if item deleted, and inter-item and item-total correlationcoefficients. Conclusion: Child-OIDP index is a measure of oral health-related quality of life that can be applied to Italian children. Initialevidence of its psychometric properties was promising, but future studies should be conducted to fully evaluate its psychometricproperties in a population based epidemiological study.

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