Hillary L. Broder|Maureen Wilson Genderson|Lacey Sischo
Reliability and validity testing for the Child Oral Health Impact Profile-Reduced (COHIP-SF 19)
New York College of Health Professions|Children's Hospital of Richmond at VCU|New York College of Health Professions
abstract objectives study assessed reliability validity child oral health impact profileshort form 19 cohipsf 19 validated 34item cohip methods participants included 205 pediatric 107 orthodontic 863 patients craniofacial anomalies cfas item level evaluations included examining content overlap distributional properties use response set confirmatory factor analysis identified potential items deletion scale reliability assessed cronbachs alpha discriminant validity cohipsf 19 evaluated follows among pediatric participants scores compared varying amounts decayed filled surfaces dfs presence caries permanent teeth orthodontic patients scores correlated anterior tooth spacingcrowding cfa scores compared clinicians ratings extent defect eod nose lip andor speech hypernasality convergent validity assessed examining partial spearman correlation cohip scores standard global health selfrating comparisons cohip cohipsf 19 completed across samples results reduced questionnaire consists 19 items oral health five items functional wellbeing four items combined subscale named socioemotional wellbeing 10 items internal reliability 082 three samples results demonstrate cohipsf 19 discriminates within across treatment groups eod within communitybased pediatric sample measure associated global health rating p lt 005 thereby indicating convergent validity conclusions reliability validity testing demonstrate cohipsf 19 psychometrically sound instrument measure oral healthrelated quality life across schoolaged pediatric populations