Sipilä Kirsi, Tolvanen Mimmi, Mitrirattanakul Somsak, Sitthisomwong Panupen, Järvelin Marjo-Riitta, Taanila Anja, Anttonen Vuokko, Lahti Satu
Institute of Dentistry, University of Eastern Finland , Finland.
Acta Odontol Scand. 2015 Jul;73(5):330-5. doi: 10.3109/00016357.2014.949842. Epub 2015 Jan 23.
Cultural or ethnic factors may play an important role in subjects' pain reports. The aim of the study was to compare the prevalence of orofacial pain symptoms between Finnish and Thai populations.
The Finnish study population comprised the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966, of which 5696 subjects participated in the present study. The Thai sample consisted of 1501 randomly selected people living in 10 different districts in Bangkok. Data on orofacial pain was collected based on questionnaires.
After adjusting for age, gender and education, the logistic regression analysis showed that Thai subjects had an increased risk for reporting oral pain (OR = 4.5, 95% CI = 3.7-5.4), tooth pain (OR = 2.0, 95% CI = 1.8-2.4) and pain in the face (OR = 1.5, 95% CI = 1.2-1.7).
It can be concluded that Thai people report more orofacial pain symptoms than Finnish subjects. Cross-cultural factors exist in the background of reporting pain symptoms in the oral and facial area.
文化或种族因素可能在受试者的疼痛报告中发挥重要作用。本研究的目的是比较芬兰人和泰国人群中口面部疼痛症状的患病率。
芬兰的研究人群包括1966年出生的芬兰北部队列，其中5696名受试者参与了本研究。泰国样本由随机选取的1501名居住在曼谷10个不同区的人组成。基于问卷收集口面部疼痛的数据。
在对年龄、性别和教育程度进行校正后，逻辑回归分析显示，泰国受试者报告口腔疼痛（比值比=4.5，95%可信区间=3.7-5.4）、牙痛（比值比=2.0，95%可信区间=1.8-2.4）和面部疼痛（比值比=1.5，95%可信区间=1.2-1.7）的风险增加。
可以得出结论，泰国人报告的口面部疼痛症状比芬兰受试者更多。在口面部疼痛症状报告的背后存在跨文化因素。
