Impact of Traumatic Dental Injuries on Oral Health-Related Quality of Life of Preschool Children and Their Families Attending a Dental Trauma Care Program

• Autor(a) principal: Milani,Ana Julia
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Alves,Nathalia Fonseca, Espirito-Santo,Tiago Martins do, Ribeiro,Luciana Gonçalves, Ammari,Michele Mikael, Antunes,Leonardo Santos, Antunes,Lívia Azeredo Alves
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2504-31452019000100004
• topic: Dental trauma; Quality of life; Oral health; Children; Family

Background: Traumatic dental injury (TDI) constitutes a public health problem. - Objective: The objective of this study was to detect the impact of TDI on oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) of preschool children in a dental trauma care program and to evaluate the psychometric properties of the OHRQoL instrument in this population. - Methods: A cross-sectional study including a nonprobabilistic sample of 2- to 6-year-old children from a 5-year collection period was performed. We used Andreasen s classification to evaluate TDI and the Brazilian version of the Early Childhood Oral Health Impact Scale (ECOHIS) to assess OHRQoL. Based on the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, Student s t test was applied to compare the means of impact in the cases of complicated and uncomplicated TDI considering a p value <0.05. - Results: The final sample was composed of 146 children (mean age 4.31 ± 1.68 years). The search for treatment was 90% mediated and 56.7% TDI was in support of tissue. The ECOHIS had satisfactory properties (Cronbach s ± = 0.83 and test-retest/intraclass correlation coefficient = 0.79). The ECOHIS mean was 6.79 ± 8.64 for the total scale, 4.29 ± 6.46 for the child subscale, and 2.50 ± 3.06 for the family subscale. Complicated TDI had a greater impact on OHRQoL in total score ( p = 0.036), child subscale ( p = 0.038), symptoms domain ( p = 0.049), and function domain ( p = 0.030). - Conclusions: The OHRQoL instrument was satisfactory. It was detected that complicated TDI impacts negatively on the OHRQoL of children and their families.