Objectives- To contribute to the activation of pre-school children oral health promotion program and the elevation of pre-school children oral health promotion by developing the effective evaluation toolkit for the outcomes of pre-school children's or...
Objectives- To contribute to the activation of pre-school children oral health promotion program and the elevation of pre-school children oral health promotion by developing the effective evaluation toolkit for the outcomes of pre-school children's oral health promotion programs in Korea, we collected the evaluation toolkits available at the quantitative outcomes evaluation of pre-school children oral health promotion program and we classified them based on health promotion evaluation model after translation. According to systematic verification procedure, we investigated the validity and reliability of each questionnaire and we intended to present evaluation questionnaire tools for the pre-school children oral health promotion program.
Method: We collected foreign and korean evaluation tools available at the quantitative evaluation of pre-school children oral health promotion and classified them based on Nutbeam's health promotion evaluation model after translation. We carried out professional examinations and recommendation procedures for 210 questions collected inside and outside of the country.
Among the 210 questions collected inside and outside of the country, we selected 116 questions recommended by the professional examination and recommendation procedure and validity is analyzed with Spearman's rank Correlation and Cramer's V for the answer results of self administrated survey and semi-open interview which was carried out by 20 parents group 1, 20 parents group 2, 20 health visitors, 20 pre-school group staffs, 21 pharmacists.
Reliability is analyzed with Wilcoxon test and Spearman's rank Correlation for the results of self administrated survey and the retest 2 weeks after its survey for 106 parents group 1, 124 parents group, 107 health visitors, 119 pre-school group staffs, 121 pharmacists.
Results: Among the 210 outcomes evaluation questions of pre-school children's oral health promotion program which is collected inside and outside of the country and translated into
Korean, the numbers of questions satisfying the recommendation standards of professional examination and recommendation were 140-questions(67%) and 93 -questions(44%) respectively.
Among the selected 116 questions by professional examination and recommendation procedure, questionnaires satisfying the recommendation standards of validity and reliability were 95-questions(82%) and 91-questions respectively.
Finally, we have presented oral health promotion program tools for the short-term and mid-term outcomes of pre-school children oral health promotion program available in the present level and the questionnaire is made up of 80-questions which are satisfying both recommendation standards of validity and reliability.
Conclusions: Among the questionnaire used in the outcomes evaluation of pre-school children oral health promotion program, there are 80-questions which were passed through professional examination and recommendation procedure and satisfying both recommendation standards of validity and reliability.
They are insufficient in the long-term outcomes area, activating, advocacy area and relatively limited in the areas which are related with health visitors, parents, pre-school group staffs and pharmacists. Hereafter, we must make efforts to develop the questionnaire about insufficient outcomes area, adopt evaluation tool developed in this study for pre-school children's oral health promotion program, and confirm the availability.