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How to Select a Questionnaire with a Good Methodological Quality?
Paiva, Saul Martins; Perazzo, Matheus de França; Ortiz, Fernanda Ruffo; Pordeus, Isabela Almeida; Martins-Júnior, Paulo Antônio.
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  • Paiva SM; Department of Pediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics, School of Dentistry, UFMG - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.
  • Perazzo MF; Department of Pediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics, School of Dentistry, UFMG - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.
  • Ortiz FR; Department of Pediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics, School of Dentistry, UFMG - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.
  • Pordeus IA; Department of Pediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics, School of Dentistry, UFMG - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.
  • Martins-Júnior PA; Department of Pediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics, School of Dentistry, UFMG - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.
Braz Dent J ; 29(1): 3-6, 2018.
Article en En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29267520
In the last decades, several instruments have been used to evaluate the impact of oral health problems on the oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) of individuals. However, some instruments lack thorough methodological validation or present conceptual differences that hinder comparisons with instruments. Thus, it can be difficult to clinicians and researchers to select a questionnaire that accurately reflect what are really meaningful to individuals. This short communication aimed to discuss the importance of use an appropriate checklist to select an instrument with a good methodological quality. The COnsensus-based Standards for the selection of health Measurement INstruments (COSMIN) checklist was developed to provide tools for evidence-based instrument selection. The COSMIN checklist comprises ten boxes that evaluate whether a study meets the standard for good methodological quality and two additional boxes to meet studies that use the Item Response Theory method and general requirements for results generalization, resulting in four steps to be followed. In this way, it is required at least some expertise in psychometrics or clinimetrics to a wide-ranging use of this checklist. The COSMIN applications include its use to ensure the standardization of cross-cultural adaptations and safer comparisons between measurement studies and evaluation of methodological quality of systematic reviews of measurement properties. Also, it can be used by students when training about measurement properties and by editors and reviewers when revising manuscripts on this topic. The popularization of COSMIN checklist is therefore necessary to improve the selection and evaluation of health measurement instruments.
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Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Asunto principal: Salud Bucal / Encuestas y Cuestionarios Tipo de estudio: Guideline Aspecto: Patient_preference Límite: Humans Idioma: En Revista: Braz Dent J Asunto de la revista: ODONTOLOGIA Año: 2018 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: Brasil Pais de publicación: Brasil
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Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Asunto principal: Salud Bucal / Encuestas y Cuestionarios Tipo de estudio: Guideline Aspecto: Patient_preference Límite: Humans Idioma: En Revista: Braz Dent J Asunto de la revista: ODONTOLOGIA Año: 2018 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: Brasil Pais de publicación: Brasil