Design of Oral Mucositis Disease Questionnaire

Objective: Oral mucositis is very painful and in severe cases it interferes with the nutrition of patients as well as the daily life of the patient. The only way to treat and prevent mucositis is to identify timely illness, recommend oral hygiene and proper oral mucosal administration. The purpose of this study was to develop a questionnaire for oral mucositis.   Material & Methods: This study is an analytical descriptive study. To design the content scope of the questionnaire, a first questionnaire was developed after extensive field research and a comprehensive library of 22 items. To determine the content validity index and content validity ratio, a questionnaire was provided to 12 professors of the faculty member of Hamadan University of Medical Sciences. Then, for internal consistency and repeatability, To 80 patients with oral mucositis dental clinics in Hamedan were given a questionnaire. One week later, the questionnaire was returned to this group and finally, reliability was determined Using the Kuder Richardson test.   Results: Six items from the initial questions, which had a low content validity rate, were excluded from the study. The final questionnaire was designed with 16 items and the content validity ratio was ultimately 0.68 and content validity index was 77% simpler, 80% relevant and 79%, respectively. The final index Content validity was calculated to be 78/6%. Reliability of the questionnaire was calculated using Kuder Richardson test (0.85).   Conclusion: The final Oral mucositis questionnaire with 16 items has high validity and reliability, and it is a standard tool for use in the field of Oral mucositis.