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INTRODUCTION: Cariology is today a broad-based discipline and in the Spanish university teaching field, all this knowledge is not unified in a curriculum. Therefore, the aim was to develop a consensus text based on the European Core Curriculum, updated, and adapted to the characteristics of the Spanish university environment. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A Spanish Cariology Curriculum Group (SCCG) was set up with members of the Spanish Society of Epidemiology and Oral Public Health (SESPO), Spanish Society of Conservative and Aesthetic Dentistry (SEOC) and Spanish Society of Paediatric Dentistry (SEOP) and university experts to adapt the European Core Curriculum in Cariology for undergraduate dental students (ECCC) for Spain. The work was carried out online during 2018 and 2019, and also face-to-face meetings took place to obtain a draft curriculum open for discussion that was presented to all the Spanish universities. The final modifications to the document were specified in a Consensus Conference of Spanish universities offering a Degree in Dentistry that took place in Madrid on 19 November 2019. RESULTS: Thirty-eight university experts, under SCCG supervision, participated in the elaboration of the new framework document. A total of 16 universities, from 23 invited, reached a consensus as to the contents of the Spanish Curriculum in Cariology for undergraduate dental students. This new Curriculum emphasises learning outcomes, uses a consensus-based terminology pertaining to caries and other hard-tissue conditions, and introduces a new domain of competence in Domain III of ECCC. CONCLUSION: This new Cariology Curriculum is the result of a very broad-based consensus of university experts in Spain and lays the foundation for the implementation of an integrated teaching of Cariology in Spain in adherence to Alliance for a Caries Free Future (ACFF) objectives.
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Dental Caries , Education, Dental , Child , Consensus , Curriculum , Humans , Pediatric Dentistry , Students, DentalABSTRACT
Objectives. To linguistically and culturally adapt the Child-OIDP, an Oral Health-Related Quality of Life(OHRQoL) index, into Spanish for use among adolescents, and to validate it by evaluating the psychometricproperties of the self-administered version. Study design. Following a forward - backward translation procedure,the English version of the questionnaire was translated by independent translators and the reconciled version wasthen sent to three experts for assessment. A pilot study was conducted on a sub-sample of 30 adolescents agedbetween 11 - 12 years to assess their understanding of the questionnaire and its wording. The participants in themain study comprised 425 school children aged from 11 to 14 and pertaining to the oral health survey on schoolchildren in Navarre; these children were given a clinical examination and answered a structured questionnaire onoral health self-perception, satisfaction and perceived dental treatment needs. We evaluated the content validity,face validity, criterion validity, internal consistency and reliability. Results. With regard to the face validity, theexperts opinion was that the version was adequate. The pilot study indicated minor changes to the wording tobetter adapt it for the target population. Regarding criterion and construct validity, the association of the C-OIDPwith the self-perception variables gave statistically significant results (p<0.01) in all cases. For the internal consistencyanalysis, no negative correlations were present in the correlations matrix nor were any of the values too highto become redundant; the majority were statistically significant (p<0.05). Cronbachs alpha value was 0.68, withcorrected item-total values of between 0.20 and 0.56 and with no alpha if-item-deleted values greater than 0.68.(AU)
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Humans , Male , Female , Child , Adolescent , Oral Health , Quality of Life , Surveys and Questionnaires , Psychometrics , SpainABSTRACT
OBJECTIVES: To linguistically and culturally adapt the Child-OIDP, an Oral Health-Related Quality of Life (OHRQoL) index, into Spanish for use among adolescents, and to validate it by evaluating the psychometric properties of the self-administered version. STUDY DESIGN: Following a forward - backward translation procedure, the English version of the questionnaire was translated by independent translators and the reconciled version was then sent to three experts for assessment. A pilot study was conducted on a sub-sample of 30 adolescents aged between 11 - 12 years to assess their understanding of the questionnaire and its wording. The participants in the main study comprised 425 school children aged from 11 to 14 and pertaining to the oral health survey on school children in Navarre; these children were given a clinical examination and answered a structured questionnaire on oral health self-perception, satisfaction and perceived dental treatment needs. We evaluated the content validity, face validity, criterion validity, internal consistency and reliability. RESULTS: With regard to the face validity, the experts' opinion was that the version was adequate. The pilot study indicated minor changes to the wording to better adapt it for the target population. Regarding criterion and construct validity, the association of the C-OIDP with the self-perception variables gave statistically significant results (p<0.01) in all cases. For the internal consistency analysis, no negative correlations were present in the correlations matrix nor were any of the values too high to become redundant; the majority were statistically significant (p<0.05). Cronbach's alpha value was 0.68, with corrected item-total values of between 0.20 and 0.56 and with no alpha if-item-deleted values greater than 0.68. The test-retest analysis gave an intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC)=0.98. CONCLUSION: The Spanish version of the self-administered questionnaire for the C-OIDP for adolescents adequately demonstrated successful psychometric properties and, therefore, is a valid and reliable instrument for measuring the OHRQoL of adolescents.
