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KMID : 1002520120060010011
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Korean Journal of Health Service Management
2012 Volume.6 No. 1 p.11 ~ p.25
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A Study on the Effects of Perceived Oral Symptoms and Masticatory Performance on the Quality of Life for the Elderly in an Urban Area
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Ryu Hwang-Gun
Lim Hyun-Ju
Kim Hye-Sook
Kang Hyun-Kyung
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Abstract
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The purpose of this study is to examine relations among the subjective oral symptoms, masticatory performance and life quality of aged people residing in some regions of a large city, ultimately providing basic information needed to develop and implement programs oral health project and oral health education programs for the oral health promotion of those people. For the above purpose, this researcher conducted a questionnaire survey of people aged 65 or over from July 14th to 30th, 2011. Among the copies of the questionnaire distributed to the subjects, 318 were recollected. Out the recollected forms, 18 which were deemed as in appropriately filled in were excluded, and the remaining 300 were finally analyzed. The results are as follows. Subjective oral symptoms and masticatory performance have correlation(p<0.001) with aged people’s life quality. Factors of influencing life quality were indicated to be gender(p=0.046), age(p=0.008), appearance of living together(<0.001), masticatory performance(p<0.001), and temperature reaction(p=0.018). This study has limitation because of being information that was obtained just with questionnaire survey on subjective oral symptoms. It is considered that there is a need of surveying along with objective data on oral symptoms hereafter.
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KEYWORD
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Life Quality, Masticatory Performance, Subjective Oral Symptoms
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