Abstract

CUPE-ARAUJO, Ana Cecilia  and  GARCIA-RUPAYA, Carmen Rosa. Parental knowledges of preschool children’s oral health: development and validation of the instrument. Rev. Estomatol. Herediana [online]. 2015, vol.25, n.2, pp.112-121. ISSN 1019-4355.

Objetives: Validate an instrument to measure the knowledge on mouth health in parents of children who go at Institutions Educational Initial in zones urbano marginales of the province of Lima in the year 2012. Methods: Type of study was observacional, descriptive and transverse, the compilation of information was the survey, by means of a structured questionnaire. Results: Proceeded to the obtaining of the validity of content by means of the statistical test V de Aiken, there was evaluated the reproducibility, which was calculated by the CCI in a sample of 30 parents, for the validity of constructo there were analyzed the answers of the questionnaire of 312 parents and / or family mothers by the analysis factorial. Finally, there was evaluated the reliability of the results obtained with the statistical Test of Cronbach’s Alpha. Inside the results we could observe that validity obtained a validity of content of 0.95, reproducibilidad of 0.89, of constructo the minor result of 0.36 in the article and highest of night nursing 0.77 in the article of mother lactation and finally the Reliability of 0.64. Conclusion: The instrument is safe and reliable in measuring oral health knowledge in parents of children attending the initial level.

Keywords : Knowledge; validation; pre-school; oral health.

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