Oral Health-Related Quality of Life Among Sudanese Children Treated for Cleft Lip and Palate

Abstract

Objective:

This study compared the oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) among children with a cleft lip with or without a cleft palate (CL±P) and a group of their peers. The reliability of the Arabic version of the Child Oral Health Impact Profile Questionnaire (COHIP) was also assessed.

Design:

A cross-sectional study.

Settings:

Cleft clinic in a private dental college in Omdurman City, Sudan.

Patients:

In all, 75 children (mean age 11.3 ± 2.5 years) with a history of CL±P and a group of 150 school children without CL±P (mean age 11.4 ± 2.6 years).

Main Outcome Measures:

Overall and subscale scores on the Arabic version of the COHIP.

Results:

Test–retest reliability of COHIP in Arabic was high with an interclass correlation coefficient >0.8. Cronbach α value internal consistency was 0.8 for the total scale and between 0.7 and 0.8 for the subscales. The COHIP score was 89.41 ± 19.97 in children with CL±P and 122.82 ± 9.45 for the control group. Children with CL±P had significantly lower scores on the overall and all subscales when compared to children without CL±P (P ≤ .001). Among the children with CL±P, there were no statistically significant differences on the COHIP based on age and/or gender (P ≥ .05).

Conclusions:

Children with CL±P had a relatively high OHRQoL, which was lower than that of their peers without CL±P in both the overall scale and all subscales. Gender and age differences had no significant impact on the OHRQoL. The COHIP Arabic version showed appropriate reliability.

Keywords

quality of life nonsyndromic clefting oral health

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