What is it about?
This cross‑sectional survey is aimed to reveal oral health‑related quality of life among the neglected elders, aged 60 years old and older, living in an elderly home. Survey was conducted at the elderly home of Tha‑Bar‑Wa Center, Thanlyin township, Yangon, Myanmar. Study participants (n = 146) were selected using systematic random sampling. Interview questionnaire and standard questionnaire of oral health impact profile (OHIP‑14) were used to collect data and measured oral health‑related quality of life. Dental status was assessed by visual inspection of one researcher throughout the survey. Descriptive statistics, t‑test, or analysis of variance (ANOVA) was analyzed to demonstrate mean difference and multiple regression for statistically relationships.
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Why is it important?
Oral health well‑being is one of the basic needs contributes to the promotion of general health, and sometimes, it has been neglected in consolidated approaches for the improving general health
Perspectives
Oral health‑related quality of life in this group of neglected elders was averagely low and systematic oral health care is evidently in need.
Pyae Linn Aung
Chulalongkorn University
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This page is a summary of: Oral health-related quality of life and a number of remaining teeth among elderly in Tha-bar-wa center, Thanlyin Township, Yangon, Myanmar, Journal of International Oral Health, January 2018, Medknow,
DOI: 10.4103/jioh.jioh_189_18.
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