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Oral Health Assessment by Lay Personnel for Older Adults
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在有或没有结构化的口腔保健计划的养老院中对口腔卫生进行比较分析
Lynn E Janssens1, Emma Temmerman1, Jonas Maertens1
1ELOHA (Equal Lifelong Oral Health for All) Research Group, Gerodontology, Oral Health Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Gerodontology
|February 17, 2025
概括
接受Gerodent口腔保健计划的养老院居民表现出明显更好的牙和假牙斑点得分. 需要持续支持,以进一步改善长期护理中老年人的口腔卫生.
科学领域:
- 老年人口腔健康 医疗保健
- 公共卫生干预措施 公共卫生干预措施
- 长期护理 长期护理
背景情况:
- 创建于2010年的Gerodent计划在养老院提供全面的,现场的专业口腔护理.
- 在这项研究之前,62个养老院在8-12年内整合了Gerodent.
- 在这项比较研究中,标准口腔护理作为对照.
研究的目的:
- 为了比较口腔卫生,特别是牙和假牙斑块水平,在有和没有Gerodent计划的设施的养老院居民之间.
- 评估结构化口腔保健计划在长期护理环境中的有效性.
主要方法:
- 采用了横截面研究设计,将Gerodent居民的集群随机样本与匹配的对照进行比较.
- 使用图雷斯基指数对牙斑以及奥格斯堡和埃拉希指数对假牙斑来评估口腔卫生.
- 数据收集包括舌头斑块,口腔卫生辅助工具和2020-2023年间的人口统计数据,并使用概括估计方程进行分析.
主要成果:
- 与非Gerodent居民 (n = 159) 相比,Gerodent居民 (n = 171) 的牙斑平均得分 (1.68对2.71) 和假牙斑平均得分 (1.60对2.21) 显著较低.
- 相对风险表明,Gerodent组的牙斑减少了68% (RR 0.32) 和假牙斑减少了45% (RR 0.55).
- 虽然基本的口腔卫生辅助工具是常见的,但假牙刷在Gerodent设施中更为普遍.
结论:
- 与接受标准护理的人相比,参与Gerodent计划的养老院居民表现出更好的口腔卫生.
- 尽管情况有所改善,但这两组的斑块水平仍然不足以完全预防口腔疾病.
- 加强口腔卫生专业人员的合作和持续支持对于进一步改善长期护理机构的口腔卫生至关重要.
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