Dental discomfort questionnaire as an assessment tool in detecting early childhood caries
Dental Discomfort Questionnaires (DDQ) is a set of toothache-related-behaviours questions designed by a group of paediatric dentist. This study aims to evaluate the relative dental discomfort among preschool children and to assess awareness of parents for toothache-related-behaviours in their chi...
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Ektodermal Displazi Grubu
2018
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| Summary: | Dental Discomfort Questionnaires (DDQ) is a set of toothache-related-behaviours questions
designed by a group of paediatric dentist. This study aims to evaluate the relative dental discomfort
among preschool children and to assess awareness of parents for toothache-related-behaviours in
their children through DDQ. A cross-sectional study was conducted at IIUM Dental Clinic and
Kuantan area involving preschool children 5 years old and below in the period of 10 months from
February until November 2016. This research was approved by the IIUM Research Ethic
Committee (IREC). Inter-examiner reliability was tested with Kappa statistic (0.83). Participants‟
caries status was assessed using decayed-missing-filled teeth (dmft) and self-administered DDQ is
filled out by their parents/caregivers. Data entry and data analysis were done using SPSS and
Amos® package version 23 with significance level set at p<0.05. 107 children were examined.
Reliability score for behaviour section (DDQ-12) showed a high Cronbach‟s Alpha value of 0.721
while awareness section (DDQ-6) showed a moderate value of 0.326. According to model
hypothesis, data showed a good structural equation modelling by goodness of fit between
toothache and dmft mediated by behaviours (TLI: 0.674, CFI: 0.754, RMSEA: 0.116). Behaviours
concerning putting away sweet things after tasting (21%), bites with molar instead of front teeth
(19%) and problems with brushing lower teeth (16%) were frequently reported toothache
behaviours by the parents/caregivers.
DDQ can act as a reliable tools in helping parents/caregivers and dentist in identifying
toothache in young preschool children. |
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