CROSS-CULTURAL ADAPTATION AND VALIDATION OF CHILD-ORAL IMPACTS ON DAILY PERFORMANCE IN ROMANIA

Background: Countries such as France, Spain, Greece, Italy, England and Thailand use the Child-Oral Impacts on Daily Performance (OIDP) for planning community oral health programmes for children. No data on dental oral health-related q uality o f l ife f or c hildren e xist i n R omania.

Aim: Therefore, the aim of the forthcoming study, reported in this abstract, will be to conduct cross-cultural adaptation and validation of Child- OIDP index.

Methods: In order to achieve this aim, there will be two main steps. The first is cross-cultural adaptation and linguistic validation in Romanian. The second is oriented to the psychometrical validation of the instrument by testing reliability and validity. In order to achieve an optimal conceptual equivalence the forward-backward-forward translation methodology will be used. Two translators will work independently. They are a native Romanian with an excellent command of the English language and an English native with fluency in Romanian language. They will assure the translation process. The final version of the translated questionnaire will be evaluated by the relevant academics and then a pre-test will take place. For international harmonization and to ensure conceptual equivalence, an international expert on the Child-OIDP index will be involved. The final version of the translated instrument will undergo a validation study to obtain more information about its psychometrics properties. The validation study will be a cross-sectional study including 200 children aged 10- 11years, of both genders, in Timis county. The sample will be stratified and from a range of schools both urban and rural. Teachers will be asked to obtain written informed consent from the parents and the questionnaire will be administrated in class time. Ethics approval for the study will be sought from the Ethics Committee of the University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Victor Babes” Timisoara. Consent will be sought from the relevant school authorities. The resulting data will be entered into SPSS 22. To ensure confidentiality, all questionnaires will be identified by a number which will be kept separate from the personal identification of participants. The internal consistency of the questionnaire will be assessed using Cronbach’s Alpha coefficient. The test-retest reliability will be assessed using the same sample of 200 children who will complete the questionnaire for a second time 3 months after its first application.

The presenter of this abstract (3490) received a Borrow Travel Award