THE VALIDITY AND RELIABILITY OF THE FAMILY IMPACT SCALE IN A SAMPLE OF TURKISH CHILDREN

Year 2024, Volume: 48 Issue: 2, 73 - 81, 28.08.2024

Pınar Serdar Eymirli , İrem Mergen , Cansu Özşin Özler , Ferhat Ünal

Abstract

Background and Aim: The family impact scale (FIS) is one
tool used to determine whether the family is affected by the
oral health problems that their children are experiencing. The
objective of this study was to adapt the FIS to Turkish culture
and to establish its validity and reliability in a group of Turkish
parent/child pairs.
Materials and Methods: The data was collected from the
parent/child pairs for pilot study (n=15), validity (n=140) and
test-retest reliability (n=10) in this methodological study. The
children were examined for dental caries status with dmft/s,
DMFT/S (caries/decay (d/D), fillings (f/F) and extracted due to
caries (m/M), Teeth (t/T); surface (s/S)) and pufa/PUFA (pulpal
involvement (p/P), ulceration (u/U), fistula (f/F) and abscess
(a/A)) indices.
Results: A total of 140 children between 6-14 years-old
and who applied to a university pediatric dental clinic for any
reason were involved. The mean FIS score of the parents
was 11.6±7.7. Cronbach’s alpha for the scale was 0.86 and
ranged from 0.70–0.84 for subscales. Besides, while intra-class
correlation coefficients (ICC) value was 0.794 for FIS-scale, it
ranged between 0.715-0.837 for subscales. The overall FISscore
has positive and strong correlations with the subscales.
Conclusion: Turkish version of FIS was created, and it had
good internal consistency reliability of subscales and found to
be valid in 6-to 14-years-old healthy children.

Keywords

Children , Parent , Quality of Life , Validation

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