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Reliability and validity of measuring scale for postoperative complications in third molar surgery
Pedro Christian Aravena1,2, Paula Astudillo3,4, Horacio Miranda5
1Dental School, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile. paravena@uach.cl.
Background:
Third molar removal surgery is the most frequently performed surgery in the oral and maxillofacial field with a wide range of items in the quantification of postoperative complications. For their measure, in 2014 a previous scale design was presented. The aim of this study was to determine the reliability and validity of a scale designed to measure and quantify postoperative complications in third molar surgery (TMS).
Methods:
A cross-sectional study of a measurement model was designed. Sixty-two patients (mean age 20.5 ± 6.6 years; 36 women) underwent TMS in three Chilean hospitals. In the postoperative check-up on the 7th day, a maxillofacial surgeon and a surgical resident performed independent postoperative assessments, applying the scale. A confirmatory factor analysis was conducted to obtain validity, internal consistency, interobserver reliability and a score to categorize the severity of complications using structural equation model analysis.
Results:
Nine patients (14.5%) had complications. The scale was defined by two components: "Secondary complication" and "Infection" (Cronbach's alpha 0.71; Interobserver reliability 87.7%) and three categories of postoperative complication: "without or mild", "moderate" and "severe".
Conclusion:
This study presents a reliability and validity scale called "Surgical complication assessment scale in TMS".
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