Establishment and evaluation of a scale method for rating children's behavior in dental clinic in China / 中华口腔医学杂志

ABSTRACT

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To establish and evaluate a scale method for rating children's behavior in dental clinic in China.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>DV records were taken for 210 children under 8-year-old, who visited the department of pediatric dentistry of Peking University School and Hospital of Stomatology during Jun to Aug in 2004. The Venham's clinic anxiety rating scale and cooperative behavior rating scale were translated into Chinese, and modified according to these records. Twenty-four pieces of records were selected randomly, and 11 pediatric dentists and assistants assessed the child behavior in the 24 records. The intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) and Spearman's correlation coefficient (SCC), which denoted inter-rater reliability and intra-rater reliability, were calculated.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>The ICC was 0.929 and the SCC was 0.963.</p><p><b>CONCLUSIONS</b>The scale has good inter-rater reliability and excellent intra-rater reliability, and it is competent for rating the children's behavior in dental clinic in China.</p>