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Article: Outreach dental care program for older adults using residential care or day care services in Hong Kong: A cohort study
Title | Outreach dental care program for older adults using residential care or day care services in Hong Kong: A cohort study |
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Issue Date | 2022 |
Citation | Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, 2022 How to Cite? |
Abstract | AIM: To evaluate the effects of an outreach dental care program (ODCP) on the oral health status and oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) of older adults who used residential or day care services in Hong Kong. METHODS: Older adults who had received dental treatments provided in the ODCP were recruited. Clinical examinations were performed by one calibrated examiner (SXY) at baseline and 1-year follow-up in the residential homes or day care centres. Face-to-face interviews were conducted using the transition scale of the Oral Health Impacts on Daily Living (OHIDL) questionnaire to investigate the perceived change in OHRQoL at baseline, 2-month and 1-year follow-ups. The Wilcoxon matched-pair signed-rank test or McNemar/McNemar-Bowker test was used to explore the change in oral health status after dental treatments. Factors associated with the perceived change in OHRQoL were explored with binary logistic regression. RESULTS: Four hundred and thirteen older adults (mean age = 83.8 years) participated in the study at baseline, and 377 (91.3%) and 359 (86.9%) were successfully followed 2 months and 1 year after receiving the outreach dental service, respectively. At the 1-year follow-up, the number of decayed teeth and functional tooth units, and the prevalence of poor denture hygiene decreased while there was more dental plaque deposition and a higher proportion of participants with gingival bleeding upon probing. More than 50% of the participants perceived no change or an improvement in OHRQoL in all domains at both follow-ups. Older adults who perceived their oral health status as 'healthy or fair' and those who suffered from toothache at baseline had a higher chance to perceive having a better or at least the same OHRQoL at the 2-month and 1-year follow-ups, respectively. CONCLUSIONS: The ODCP in Hong Kong can solve some of the dental problems of older adults using long-term care services and keep most of them from deterioration in OHRQoL, especially those suffering from toothache. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/320160 |
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DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Yang, X | - |
dc.contributor.author | Lo, ECM | - |
dc.contributor.author | Leung, KCM | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-10-21T07:48:05Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2022-10-21T07:48:05Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2022 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, 2022 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/320160 | - |
dc.description.abstract | AIM: To evaluate the effects of an outreach dental care program (ODCP) on the oral health status and oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) of older adults who used residential or day care services in Hong Kong. METHODS: Older adults who had received dental treatments provided in the ODCP were recruited. Clinical examinations were performed by one calibrated examiner (SXY) at baseline and 1-year follow-up in the residential homes or day care centres. Face-to-face interviews were conducted using the transition scale of the Oral Health Impacts on Daily Living (OHIDL) questionnaire to investigate the perceived change in OHRQoL at baseline, 2-month and 1-year follow-ups. The Wilcoxon matched-pair signed-rank test or McNemar/McNemar-Bowker test was used to explore the change in oral health status after dental treatments. Factors associated with the perceived change in OHRQoL were explored with binary logistic regression. RESULTS: Four hundred and thirteen older adults (mean age = 83.8 years) participated in the study at baseline, and 377 (91.3%) and 359 (86.9%) were successfully followed 2 months and 1 year after receiving the outreach dental service, respectively. At the 1-year follow-up, the number of decayed teeth and functional tooth units, and the prevalence of poor denture hygiene decreased while there was more dental plaque deposition and a higher proportion of participants with gingival bleeding upon probing. More than 50% of the participants perceived no change or an improvement in OHRQoL in all domains at both follow-ups. Older adults who perceived their oral health status as 'healthy or fair' and those who suffered from toothache at baseline had a higher chance to perceive having a better or at least the same OHRQoL at the 2-month and 1-year follow-ups, respectively. CONCLUSIONS: The ODCP in Hong Kong can solve some of the dental problems of older adults using long-term care services and keep most of them from deterioration in OHRQoL, especially those suffering from toothache. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology | - |
dc.title | Outreach dental care program for older adults using residential care or day care services in Hong Kong: A cohort study | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Yang, X: sxcyang@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.email | Lo, ECM: edward-lo@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.email | Leung, KCM: kcmleung@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Lo, ECM=rp00015 | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Leung, KCM=rp00032 | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/cdoe.12793 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 339851 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000854120900001 | - |