Agreement between adolescents and parents overview of oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL)

Introduction: OHRQoL plays an important role in understanding subjective patient evaluations of and experience with oral healthcare [ 1 , 2 ]. The aim is to access the agreement between adolescents and parents regarding the impact of OHRQoL. Materials and methods: A sample of 112 pairs of adolescents aged 11 to 14 years and parents, previously signed a consent form and dully completed the Portuguese version of the Parental Perceptions Questionnaire (PPQ) and the Child Perceptions Questionnaire (CPQ 11-14 ). The ethical approval was granted by ethical committee of Universidad de Sevilla. A descriptive analysis was performed using the software IBM SPSS © statistics 20.0. Results: The Cronbach's alpha values for the respective CPQ11-14 and PPQ, were in: a) Oral Symptoms, 0.49 and 0.52; b) Functional Limitations, 0.75 and 0.66; c) Emotional Well-being, 0.91 and 0.82; d) and Social well-being, 0.81 and 0.79. The results obtained demonstrate statistically significant differences in the General Oral Health: 1.63 (±0.88), 2.11 (±0.95), p