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Oral Health Assessment by Lay Personnel for Older Adults
Published on: February 2, 2020
An empirically derived population-response model of the short form of the Oral Health Impact Profile
N M Nuttall1, G D Slade, A E Sanders
1Section of Dental Public Health & Health Psychology, Dundee Dental Hospital and School, University of Dundee, UK. n.m.nuttall@dundee.ac.uk
Objective:
The aim of this paper was to model the consequences of dental conditions from an empirical basis and to test the model's ability to predict response combinations.
Methods:
The model was derived from responses to the short-form Oral Health Impact Profile (OHIP14) obtained from a UK population sample of 5281 dentate adults. This model was then used to predict OHIP14 response combinations obtained from a sample of 3973 dentate and edentulous adults in Australia.
Findings:
The empirically derived population-response model accounted for over 98% of response combinations of Australian dentate adults.
Conclusions:
The empirically derived model followed a similar hierarchical pattern to the base model underlying the long-form version of the measure (thereby supporting the validity of the OHIP14 measure) and was strongly predictive of the pattern of responses obtained from Australian adults.
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