Validation of the instrument for the determination of prevalence of facial cellulite and its relationship with cariesdental in patients from 5 to 9 years of age

Abstract

Introduction: Odontogenic facial cellulite is commonly observed in hospital emergency rooms in pediatric patients due to the dental caries. Objective: to validate the facial cellulite prevalence instrument and its relationship with dental caries in patients from 5 to 9 years of age in the IESS Miracle General Hospital. Materials and methods: mixed approach quantitative and qualitative, type of field research, cross section, descriptive, non-experimental, a pilot plan of 15 patients was carried out ediatric patients, a quantitative instrument (data collection form) counted with 9 experts for an expert judgment and in the qualitative instrument (Interview) had 6 experts for the validation of the instrument in total they are of 15 health professionals, qualifying Validity, Relevance and Coherence. Results: the quantitative instrument has a score of 80.85 of reliability and the qualitative instrument has a score of 87.11 out of reliability. In the quantitative instrument, the prevalence of facial cellulite in children 5 to 9 years of age, male gender (80%), range 7 to 8 years old (53.3%), appointment for the first time (60%), referential history dental caries (93.3%), CIES10 diagnosis was L032 facial cellulite (93.3%), affected region in the submandibular area (73.3%), prevalence of dental caries, deciduous molars (93.3%), do not record a history of good health (73.3%), preventive dental treatments per year none (80%), frequent cause in the appearance of facial cellulitis, pulpal necrosis K041. Conclusion: the validation of the instrument had a very high degree of reliability. good and its high Cronbach's alpha figure, the same one that gives security and confidence, thanks to the rating of the judges who reviewed every detail