Title
Quality of life related to oral health in a venezuelan population in Peru
Other title
Calidad de vida relacionada con la salud oral en una población venezolana en el Perú
Date Issued
01 September 2020
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Ediciones Avances S.L.
Abstract
AIM. Theobjective of thepresentinvestigationisfocusedonevaluatingthequality of liferelated to oral health in a Venezuelanpopulation in Peru. MATERIAL AND METHODS. Thisis a cross-sectionalanalyticalstudycarriedoutbetweenthemonths of Sep-tember and November of 2019 to thepopulation of Venezuelannationality. A total of 880 Venezuelannatio-nalsparticipatedwhovoluntarilyparticipated in thestudy, of which 45.9% (379) werefemale and 54.1% (501) male. A clinicalexaminationwasperformed to determine theclinical variables: the CPOD index, the oral hy-gieneindex and the gingival index. To assessthequality of liferelated to oral health, checkthe OHIP-14 Oral HealthImpactProfile, whichconsists of 49 questionsgroupedinto 7 dimensionsthat are functionallimitation, physicalpain, psychologicaldistress, physicaldisability, psychologicaldisability, physical and disadvanta-geddisabilityForitself a score of 1 isgiven and not 0. Thus, a higher score gets the quality of life is worse. RESULTS. The relationship of quality of life with health verifies that a total of 27% (116,869) were positive responses and 72% (31,434) negative responses. CONCLUSIONS. Regarding the quality of life related to oral health, it was obtained that the population studied has a good quality of life, represented by more than half of the respondents.
Start page
186
End page
190
Volume
36
Issue
4
Language
Spanish
OCDE Knowledge area
Odontología, Cirugía oral, Medicina oral
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85098875349
Source
Avances en Odontoestomatologia
ISSN of the container
02131285
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