Development and validation of the Italian version of the ‘Parental Perceptions of Silver Diamine Fluoride Dental Color Changes’ questionnaire

• DOI: 10.1111/ipd.12841
• Publication Date: 2021-05-12T14:51:06Z
• Authors: Simone Bagattoni; Lisa Lardani; Maria Chiara Capp...; Maria Rosaria Gatto; Marco Montevecchi; Gabriela Piana
• Keywords: Parents; acceptance; perception; silver diamine fluoride; validity; acceptance; perception; silver diamine fluoride; validity; Child; Fluorides, Topical; Humans; Italy; Quaternary Ammonium Compounds; Reproducibility of Results; Silver Compounds; Parents; Surveys and Questionnaires; Tooth Discoloration; Translations; 4. Education; Reproducibility of Results; Silver Compounds; Quaternary Ammonium Compounds; 03 medical and health sciences; 0302 clinical medicine; Italy; Surveys and Questionnaires; Humans; Tooth Discoloration; Fluorides, Topical; Translations; Child

The original English version of the questionnaire 'Parental Perceptions SDF Dental Color Changes' was used among parents in New York City metropolitan area.To develop an Italian and to assess its validity.The construct validity internal consistency were assessed a convenience sample 251 young healthy children seen at University Bologna Pisa. Forward-backward technique carried out for translation questionnaire. Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin measure sampling adequacy equal 0.91, Bartlett's test sphericity statistically significant (P = .001), so items treated with exploratory principal component analysis (PCA).Cronbach's alpha ranged from 0.69 0.95. PCA demonstrates that all load on first (87% explained variance). All Spearman correlation coefficients between each subscale (positive scenario: 0.563; negative 0.665) general acceptability showed .0001). Different age, educational level, family income did not produce different scores any subscales > .05; Mann-Whitney test).The high appropriate be population.