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- Title
Association between dental prosthesis need, nutritional status and quality of life of elderly subjects.
- Authors
Pillai, Rajath; Mathur, Vijay; Jain, Veena; Shah, Naseem; Kalra, Sandeep; Kumar, Pravesh; Dey, A.; Pillai, Rajath Sasidharan; Mathur, Vijay Prakash; Dey, A B
- Abstract
<bold>Purpose: </bold>To determine the effect of prosthesis need on nutritional status and oral health-related quality of life (OHrQoL) in elderly and to check the disparity between prosthesis need and prosthesis want in the Indian elderly.<bold>Methods: </bold>A total of 946 geriatric participants reporting to a geriatric medicine clinic were recruited in the study. Mini-nutritional assessment (MNA), geriatric oral health assessment (GOHAI) indices, prosthesis need according to WHO criteria, and prosthesis want was recorded along with age, gender, socioeconomic status and posterior occluding pair.<bold>Results: </bold>Significant associations exist between prosthesis need and age (p = 0.005), MNA (p = 0.006) and GOHAI (p = 0.000). Prosthesis demand too was influenced by age (p = 0.004), posterior occluding pairs (p = 0.000), MNA (p = 0.012) and GOHAI (p = 0.000). GOHAI was negatively correlated with upper (r = -0.445) and lower prosthesis need (r = -0.460). Participants with some prosthesis need had significantly lower MNA and GOHAI scores as compared to those with no prosthesis need. Though prosthesis need was high (79.7 %), demand was low (39.3 %).<bold>Conclusion: </bold>Prosthesis need affects nutritional status and OHrQoL in elderly, and a wide gap exists between need and want of prosthesis.
- Subjects
INDIA; GERIATRIC nutrition; ANTHROPOMETRY; CHI-squared test; DENTURES; INTERVIEWING; ORAL hygiene; PROBABILITY theory; QUALITY of life; RESEARCH funding; STATISTICS; DATA analysis; MULTIPLE regression analysis; DATA analysis software
- Publication
Quality of Life Research, 2015, Vol 24, Issue 12, p2863
- ISSN
0962-9343
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1007/s11136-015-1030-7