Oral health-related quality of life in Dutch children with cleft lip and/or palate
Objective: To investigate the oral health-related quality of life (OH-RQoL) of Dutch cleft lip and palate patients. It was hypothesized that (1) there is no difference between cleft patients’ and their parents’ reports of patients’ OH-RQoL; (2) there are no gender differences; (3) there are no differences in OH-RQoL between cleft patients with regard to their symptoms; and (4) there is no difference between patients above and below 12 years of age. Materials and Methods: The sample consisted of 122 patients with clefts (age range, 8-15 years) and their parents. Respondents were recruited from... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2011 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Bos , A & Prahl , C 2011 , ' Oral health-related quality of life in Dutch children with cleft lip and/or palate ' , The Angle Orthodontist , vol. 81 , no. 5 , pp. 865-871 . https://doi.org/10.2319/070110-365.1 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27462672 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://research.vu.nl/en/publications/74f0a1b3-442b-41d2-956f-0c795579b206 |
Objective: To investigate the oral health-related quality of life (OH-RQoL) of Dutch cleft lip and palate patients. It was hypothesized that (1) there is no difference between cleft patients’ and their parents’ reports of patients’ OH-RQoL; (2) there are no gender differences; (3) there are no differences in OH-RQoL between cleft patients with regard to their symptoms; and (4) there is no difference between patients above and below 12 years of age. Materials and Methods: The sample consisted of 122 patients with clefts (age range, 8-15 years) and their parents. Respondents were recruited from the cleft palate team of Amsterdam. They completed the Child Oral Health-Related Quality of Life questionnaire (COHIP). Items were divided into five different subscales, and scores on all subscales were compared between and within groups. Results: Patients’ and parents’ perceptions differed significantly on three of the five subscales. Girls and boys did not differ significantly with regard to their perception of reported OH-RQoL. The cleft lip and cleft lip and alveolus [CL(A)] subgroup scored significantly higher on the functional wellbeing subscale. The cleft patients aged 12 years and older scored significantly lower on the emotional well-being and oral symptoms subscales when compared with their younger peers. Conclusions: Only the second hypothesis was not rejected in this study. This means that parents are not interchangeable with regard to reporting on their children’s perceptions related to OHRQoL, that OH-RQoL changes with age, and that it is important that subgroups are respected when investigating OH-RQoL in cleft patients.