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Oral Health-Quality of Life Predictors Depend on Population

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In the framework of the development and evaluation of oral health interventions that take into account people’s oral health-related quality of life (OH-QoL), it is important to know what determinants and effects of OH-QoL are. Because the processes involved in the experience of OH-QoL may differ for different populations, this study mapped the relations of general health perception, social factors, dental anxiety and oral hygiene behavior on the one hand with OH-QoL on the other hand, in two different samples that mainly differed on the experience they had with dental care and dental pathology: In 112 patients of the Center for Dentistry and Oral Hygiene and in 339 first year psychology students. The relations of three of the four variables with OH-QoL differed in both samples. Although not all relations could be interpreted unequivocally in this cross-sectional design, the data illustrate that the main difference between both samples (i.e., patients indicated for oral treatment versus students outside treatment) influenced the psychological processes involved in OH-QoL. This implicates that oral health interventions directed at increasing OH-QoL may have to be adapted to populations.

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Acknowledgment

The authors thank all departments involved. The assistance provided by the staff of the Center for Dentistry and Oral Hygiene, and especially the support of Rob M.H. Schaub, DDS, PhD, Yvonne M. Broeils-Moes and Manon R. Ketz, MSc. In addition, the students (cohort 2006) of the faculty of Psychology, University of Groningen in the Netherlands are gratefully acknowledged.

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  1. Research and Innovation Group in Health Care and Nursing, Hanze University Applied Sciences Groningen, Eyssoniusplein 18, Postbus 3109, 9701 DC, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Yvonne A. B. Buunk-Werkhoven & Cees P. van der Schans

  2. Dept. of Social and Organizational Psychology, University of Groningen, Grote Kruisstraat 2/1, 9712, TS, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Yvonne A. B. Buunk-Werkhoven & Arie Dijkstra

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Buunk-Werkhoven, Y.A.B., Dijkstra, A. & van der Schans, C.P. Oral Health-Quality of Life Predictors Depend on Population. Applied Research Quality Life 4, 283–293 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11482-009-9081-y

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