Brennan David S, Keuskamp Dominic, Balasubramanian Madhan, Amarasena Najith
Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Adelaide Dental School, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
Australas J Ageing. 2018 Mar;37(1):E1-E6. doi: 10.1111/ajag.12475. Epub 2017 Nov 13.
Our aim was to examine the associations between general health and well-being with living conditions, oral health and degree of dependency.
We surveyed people from a primary care service and collected data on sociodemographic characteristics, general health, health utility, well-being, activities, living conditions and oral health impact.
Overall, 459 participated (78% response rate). Poor general health was associated with decreased instrumental activities of daily living scores (18% of those with poor general health were independent vs 60% with good general health). Greater oral health impact was also related to poor general health. Health utility was lower for some dependency, for renting and oral health impact. Well-being was also lower for some dependency, for renting, not speaking English and oral health impact.
In addition to the well-known association of poor general health with dependency, our results also illustrate the potential importance of living conditions and oral health.
我们的目的是研究总体健康和幸福感与生活条件、口腔健康及依赖程度之间的关联。
我们对一家初级保健服务机构的人员进行了调查，并收集了有关社会人口学特征、总体健康、健康效用、幸福感、活动、生活条件及口腔健康影响的数据。
总体而言，459人参与了调查（应答率为78%）。总体健康状况较差与日常生活工具性活动得分降低相关（总体健康状况较差者中18%能够自理，而总体健康状况良好者中这一比例为60%）。更大的口腔健康影响也与总体健康状况较差有关。对于某些依赖情况、租房者以及口腔健康影响，健康效用较低。对于某些依赖情况、租房者、不会说英语者以及口腔健康影响，幸福感也较低。
除了众所周知的总体健康状况较差与依赖之间的关联外，我们的结果还表明了生活条件和口腔健康的潜在重要性。
