Evaluation of the reliability and validity of the Early Childhood Oral Health Impact Scale (ECOHIS) questionnaire translated into Malagasy

Table 1 Demographic characteristic of preschool children and parents respectively

Demographic characteristic	Frequency		Mean (SD)
Demographic characteristic	n	%
Child’s characteristics
Age
3	40	26.7	4.17(0.82)
4	44	29.3
5	66	44.0
Gender
Boys	65	43.3
Girls	85	56.7
Parent’s characteristics
Relationship to child
Mother	117	78.0
Father	33	22.0
Level of education
Unfinished secondary school	88	56.7
Secondary school	56	37.3
High school	6	6.0
Oral health status (dmft^a)			6.01(1.71)
Clinical groups
Children with
pufa = 0	81	54.00
Children with
pufa≥1	69	46.00

^adecayed, missing, filled teeth = dmft; pulp involvement (p), ulceration (u), fistula (f) and abscess (a) = pufa

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