The Impact of COVID-19 on Parental Perception of Oral Health-Related Quality of Life of Children: A Comparison of a Sample from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.

Autor: AlHayyan WA; Ministry of Health, Government of Kuwait, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia., AlSaffan AD; Department of Preventive Dental Sciences, College of Dentistry, Riyadh Elm University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia., Alenezi MI; College of Dentistry, Riyadh Elm University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia., Almutairi BK; College of Dentistry, Riyadh Elm University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia., Alammari LF; College of Dentistry, Riyadh Elm University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia., Pani SC; Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: International journal of dentistry [Int J Dent] 2023 Jul 18; Vol. 2023, pp. 9983979. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Jul 18 (Print Publication: 2023).
DOI: 10.1155/2023/9983979
Abstrakt: Materials and Methods: OHRQoL was measured using a a validated Arabic version of the Child Oral Health Impact Profile (COHIP). Parents of children aged between 5 and 9 years were administered questionnaire during the COVID-19 pandemic. The responses were compared across the different domains of the questionnaire between the two countries using the Mann-Whitney U test. Differences were also tested between the parents of males and females separately in each city. The correlation of the COHIP scores with the age of the child was done using the Spearman's rho.
Results: No significant differences in overall COHIP scores were found between the parents in Riyadh and Kuwait City ( p > 0.05). There were significant gender differences observed across domains in Kuwait ( p = 0.030) but not in Riyadh ( p = 0.295). There was also a significant negative correlation between the different COHIP domains in Kuwait but not Riyadh.
Conclusion: There is a greater gender difference and age correlation of OHRQoL among the population studied in Kuwait City when compared to those in Riyadh.
Competing Interests: The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.
(Copyright © 2023 Wasmiya A. AlHayyan et al.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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