Study aimed to assess oral health knowledge, and reported practices among elderly with oral and dental problems. Design: Descriptive research design was used. Settings: This study was conducted in dental out-patients clinics of the General Assiut Hospital & the El-Eman General Hospital Quota sample was used to select elderly; the total number of sample was 1300 elderly. Tools: Three tools were used. Tool I: structured interview form. It includes socio-demographic characteristics, medical and oral health history, Tool II: to assess elderly oral health knowledge, it includes 20 questions. Tool III: it includes three parts (reported practice about tooth brushing, reported practice about general oral health care and brief oral health status examination. Results: The main results of study showed that total percent of the studied elderly had unsatisfactory knowledge and the vast majority of the studied elderly had inadequate reported practice about tooth brushing. Also it was noticed that more than one third of elderly never clean their mouth, while more than half had unhealthy oral state. Conclusion: The total percent and the vast majority of the studied elderly had unsatisfactory knowledge about oral health and inadequate practice about tooth brushing respectively. Recommendations: Providing health education program to the elderly people about oral health to improve their knowledge and practice.
Background:The chronic conditions prevalence and the susceptibility to getting two or more chronic conditions, which is called multimorbidity, increase with age. Multimorbid geriatric patients face further barriers to diseases management self-efficacy. Aim of the study: This study aims to evaluate the association between long-term conditions, multimorbidity burden, and chronic disease self-efficacy among geriatric patients. Subjects and Method: Research design: a correlational descriptive research design was used. Setting: This study was conducted in the outpatient clinics of Sohag University Hospitals. Subjects: A purposive sample of 200 geriatric patients was selected. Tools of data collection: six tools were used: two screening tools for excluding geriatric patients with depressive symptoms or cognitive impairments, and four tools for collecting data. Tool I: Geriatric patients' demographic and clinical data structured interview schedule. Tool II: long-term chronic conditions questionnaire. Tool III: Chinese Multimorbidity Treatment Burden Questionnaire. Tool IV: Chronic Disease Self-Efficacy Scale-Korean Version. Results: The majority (94%) of studied geriatric patients had the worst living level with chronic conditions and experienced a high treatment burden level (85%). Approximately half (51%) of the participants had moderate chronic disease self-efficacy. Conclusion: There was a statistically significant positive relationship between geriatric patients' long-term conditions and chronic disease self-efficacy while there was a statistically significant negative relationship between multimorbidity burden, and chronic disease self-efficacy. Recommendations: These results have potential implications for gerontological nurses' efforts to develop health education programs for geriatric patients regarding multimorbidity rehabilitation and to promote their self-efficacy.
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