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KMID : 0355420100340030411
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Journal of Korean Academy of Oral Health
2010 Volume.34 No. 3 p.411 ~ p.421
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The association between self-reported oral health problems and oral health-related quality of life
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Choi Jun-Seon
Lee Yeong-Ju
Jeon Su-Bin
Kim Hye-Mi
Jeong Eun-Ha
Jo Eun-Ji
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Abstract
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Objectives: The arm of this study was to investigate the correlations between self-reported oral health problems and oral healthrelated quality of life using OHIP-14S.
Methods: For the study, adult residents over 35 age living in Seoul, Incheon, and Gyeonggi area have been surveyed from 17th Aug., 2009 to 4th Sep., 2009. Oral health-related quality of life was measured using the OHIP-14S. The relationship between self-reported oral health problems and the oral health-related quality of life was evaluated by t-test, one-way ANOVA, and multiple regression analysis.
Results: The study shows that the OHIP-14 scores are found the lowest at people in over 60 years (p＜0.01). Self-reported symptoms of mandibular dysfunction are found to higher in middle school graduates comparing with highschool or above graduates (p＜0.05). Also symptoms of dry mouth are more reported among people over 60 years and elementary school graduates (p＜0.05). People get more self-reported symptoms of periodontitis, dental caries, mandibular dysfunction, and dry mouth they likely get higher score of functional limitation, physical pain, psychological discomfort, physical disability, psychological disability, social disability, and handicap on the OHIP-14 7-demensions (p＜0.05). People who were older and had more self-reported symptoms of periodontitis, mandibular dysfunction, dry mouth and need for oral health treatment are found to higher OHIP-14 scores (p＜0.05). Especially, the strongest correlations were found between oral health-related quality of life and self-reported symptoms of periodontitis (p＜0.001).
Conclusions: The results demonstrated periodontitis, mandibular dysfunction, and dry mouth are clearly cause negative impact on public’s life quality. Therefore, to improve people’s life quality some measures to prevent factors lowering oral functions and abilities, uncomfortable, and pains should be taken in advance. Further, government is required to widely drive oral-disease preventive programs and dental professionals will make efforts to revitalizing regular oral health check programs and developments and applications of useful oral health education programs.
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KEYWORD
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dry mouth, mandibular dysfunction, oral health problems, periodontitis, quality of life
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