The Serbian version of the „Oral Health Questionnaire for Adults“

Background/Aim. The assessment of the impact oral health on quality life presents increasing need in testing an individual and entire population. aim study was to translate index ?Oral Health Questionnaire for Adults? World Organization into Serbian language check its reliability Armed Forces professional staff. Methods. This designed as observation-al, epidemiological study. translated language. classical test theory used data analysis. assessed characteristics included internal consistency construct validity. Results. A total 1,741 participants were this mean age group 32.4 ? 9.7 years. In last 12 months, problems which occurred frequently or very often regarding teeth mouth follows: difficult biting food (6.2%), chewing (5.1%), speech pronunciation certain words (1.9%), dryness (2.9%), feeling discomfort due esthetic appearance (6.8%). (items considering Oral Self-Assessment) had high (the Cronbach?s coefficient 0.879). Principal component analysis Promax rotation revealed 1 factor with Eigenvalue exceeding 1, accounting 54.3% variance. Conclusion. version provides useful reliable in-formation condition members.