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- Title
Impact of demographic and clinical variables on the oral health-related quality of life among five-year-old children: a population-based study using self-reports.
- Authors
Abanto, Jenny; Panico, Claudia; Bönecker, Marcelo; Frazão, Paulo
- Abstract
Background Although SOHO-5 has been validated, there is no study testing this instrument in population-based samples. Aims To evaluate the impact of demographic and oral clinical variables on the oral health-related quality of life ( OHRQoL) in 5-year-old children from a socially deprived Brazilian area using selfreports. Design Data from 588 children were analyzed. Examinations included untreated dental caries and occlusal deviations. Children answered the Brazilian SOHO-5 version and interviewers collected demographic characteristics of the child (sex and skin color). Robust Poisson regression associated outcome and exposures. Results General, the oral impacts were reported by 71.1% of children. The mean and standard deviation total score of the Brazilian SOHO-5 were 3.51 and 3.82, respectively. Children with untreated dental caries ( PR = 1.28; P = 0.004) and increased overjet ( PR = 1.35; P = 0.002) experienced a worse OHRQoL. Dark and mixed skin color children did not have a good impact on their OHRQoL ( PR = 1.53; P = 0.006 and PR = 1.44; P < 0.000, respectively) compared to light ones. Conclusions Untreated dental caries and increased overjet were independently associated with worst OHRQoL in 5-year-old children. As an indication of social deprivation, dark and mixed skin color children compared to light ones presented higher probability for reporting worst OHRQoL independently of the oral clinical conditions.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; QUALITY of life; ORAL hygiene -- Social aspects; CHILDREN; SELF-evaluation; CHILDREN'S dental care; DENTAL caries in children; DEMOGRAPHIC surveys; DENTAL occlusion; HEALTH; DENTAL caries; POISSON distribution
- Publication
International Journal of Paediatric Dentistry, 2018, Vol 28, Issue 1, p43
- ISSN
0960-7439
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/ipd.12300