Social, economic, and behavioral variables associated with oral health-related quality of life among Brazilian adults

Abstract

Social, economic, and behavioral variables associated with oral health-related quality of life among Brazilian adultsVariáveis sociais, econômicas e comportamentais associadas à saúde bucal relacionada à qualidade de vida em adultos brasileiros

Oral Health Related Illness and Associated Factors among Bank Workers and Teachers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Cross-Sectional Study

“…This finding was in line with study conducted in Brazil, America, and Sweden [22][23][24][25][26]. This association between Oral health related illness and old age might be due to the age of the tooth itself and other age related co morbidities such as diabetes mellitus [23].…”

Qualidade de vida e condições de saúde bucal de hipertensos e diabéticos em um município do Sudeste Brasileiro

“…Adequate examples of oral manifestations would be the occurance of periodontal severe insertion losses, hyposalivation, microbiota changes, healing difficulties, abscesses, hyperplasias, polyps, cheilitis and clefts associated to physiopathology of the diseases or their drug treatments [6][7][8][9] . Nevertheless, clinical aspects discussed isolatedly showed us the dichotomous aspect (based on the presence-absence of diseases) of the researches 10 , as well as their biomedical and unidirectional aspects (focused on the expert). In this way, subjective indicators, based on self-perception and related to social, demographic, economical, psychological and behavioural factors, can fit the purpose of this research and be enlightening, mainly if they inform how specific conditions affect people's welfare and daily lives 10,11 .…”

“…Nevertheless, clinical aspects discussed isolatedly showed us the dichotomous aspect (based on the presence-absence of diseases) of the researches 10 , as well as their biomedical and unidirectional aspects (focused on the expert). In this way, subjective indicators, based on self-perception and related to social, demographic, economical, psychological and behavioural factors, can fit the purpose of this research and be enlightening, mainly if they inform how specific conditions affect people's welfare and daily lives 10,11 . Therefore, quality of life has been frequently associated to Oral Health Clinical Conditions (OHCC) [10][11][12][13][14][15] .…”

“…In this way, subjective indicators, based on self-perception and related to social, demographic, economical, psychological and behavioural factors, can fit the purpose of this research and be enlightening, mainly if they inform how specific conditions affect people's welfare and daily lives 10,11 . Therefore, quality of life has been frequently associated to Oral Health Clinical Conditions (OHCC) [10][11][12][13][14][15] . However, the World Health Organization (WHO) has officially recognized the importance of an agenda when it presented, as global goal, the decrease of the impact of health and craniofacial diseases on human health and the psychosocial development among populations 16 .…”

Gingival recession and oral health‐related quality of life: a population‐based cross‐sectional study in Brazil

“…In this regard, the overall mean OHIP‐14 scores equaled 9.6 point, and only 16.8% of individuals had no impact on OHRQoL, while 54.5% had answered ‘fairly often’ or ‘very often’ for at least one question. Comparatively, Gabardo et al observed that only 15.9% of the individuals had at least one negative impact greater than ‘fairly often’ in a random sample of a city located in the metropolitan area of Porto Alegre. In a Swedish adult random sample, the mean OHIP‐14 was 6.4, and 21% had scores equal to zero.…”