A Study of the Related Factors for the Oral Health-Related Quality of Life in the Students of Junior High Schools in Taoyuan County

• Main Authors: Huo-Chwan Lee, 李火傳
• Other Authors: Tieh-Yu Shieh
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2003
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/a9wuu2

碩士 === 高雄醫學大學 === 口腔衛生科學研究所碩士在職專班 === 91 === There is no enough data about oral health-related quality of life in adolescents. The aim of the present study used OHIP as a measuring method of oral health-related quality of life in junior high school students in Taoyuan County. Two junior high schools, Na Kan and Guanng Ming were selected via random sampling. The subjects in this study were 356 junior high school students by stratified grade-sex random sampling. The examination was carried out in two parts. In the first part, a questionnaire was composed of items including demographical variables, OHIP and oral hygiene behaviors. In the second part, the students were clinically examined in their schools using procedures and diagnostic criteria recommended by the World Health Organization (1997). The prevalence of caries was 95.2%. Boys and girls respectively take 93.3% and 96.6%. DMFT in girls was 5.3 that higher than 4.6 in boys. About 43% students suffered from periodontal disease, 40.2% for boys and 40.5% for girls, respectively. The mean score of OHIP was 0.83, and the most important effect among junior high students was “Psychological Discomfort”. The domain’s score was 1.15, and girl>boy. The second important was “Physical Pain” that score was 0.98. If parents’ education level were low, especially father’s, the OHIP score would high. It represented the lower oral health-related quality of life. In addition, the mean OHIP score had significant difference between with caries (0.84) and without caries (0.54) (p=0.021); and DMFT had positive correlation with OHIP score, markedly. It showed that the poor oral health status had low oral health-related quality of life. We could think that older people oral health as being important to life quality in a variety of different ways, and younger people too. So, oral health status is closely associated with oral quality of life for both adults and children.