Lawal Folake Barakat, Fagbule Omotayo Francis, Akinloye Seyi John, Lawal Taiwo Akeem, Oke Gbemisola Aderemi
Department of Periodontology and Community Dentistry, University of Ibadan and University College Hospital, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria.
Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa, African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya.
Front Oral Health. 2022 Sep 9;3:979674. doi: 10.3389/froh.2022.979674. eCollection 2022.
Recent evidence has shown that the prevalence of periodontal diseases is still high among adolescents and, thus, there is an impetus to promote good oral hygiene habits among them through schools. There is a need to provide baseline data on the oral hygiene habits of adolescents and how it impacts their oral health-related quality of life for appropriate intervention to be instituted. Moreover, oral health-related quality of life describes how oral health affects the daily activities of individuals; thus, it provides a holistic means of involving individuals in making decisions about their oral health including uptake of oral hygiene habits.
To assess the impact of oral hygiene habits on adolescents' oral health-related quality of life.
A cross-sectional study was conducted among 1,800 adolescents aged 14-18 years attending 36 Senior Secondary Schools in the metropolis of Ibadan, Nigeria. Data were collected using a self-administered questionnaire, which assessed students' sociodemographic characteristics, oral hygiene habits, and oral health-related quality of life with COHIP-SF19. Data obtained was analyzed with SPSS version 25 and the -value was set at <5%.
The mean age of the adolescents was 15.16 (±1.16) years. Many 1,094 (60.3%) cleaned their teeth twice or more often daily with 126 (7.0%) cleaning after meals and 1,519 (84.4%) changing their tooth cleaning agent at three months intervals or less. About 1,215 (67.5%) spent three minutes or longer in cleaning their teeth. Only a few 238 (13.2%) cleaned interdentally and 137 (7.6%) used dental floss. The OHRQoL scores of the adolescents ranged from 9-76. A total of 1,612 (93.5%) had at least an impact on their OHRQoL. Those who cleaned their teeth more frequently (twice or more) were more likely to have better OHRQoL (OR = 1.6, 95% CI = 1.1-2.4, = 0.025) and those who did not clean interdentally were more likely to have better OHRQoL (OR = 2.8, 95% CI = 1.2-6.5, = 0.014) than others.
The oral hygiene habits of the adolescents were suboptimal and those who cleaned their teeth twice or more often each day had fewer impacts on their OHRQoL, whereas those who engaged in interdental cleaning had higher impacts on their OHRQoL than others.
最近的证据表明，青少年牙周疾病的患病率仍然很高，因此，有必要通过学校推动他们养成良好的口腔卫生习惯。需要提供青少年口腔卫生习惯及其对口腔健康相关生活质量影响的基线数据，以便进行适当干预。此外，口腔健康相关生活质量描述了口腔健康如何影响个人的日常活动；因此，它提供了一种让个人参与有关口腔健康决策（包括养成口腔卫生习惯）的全面方法。
评估口腔卫生习惯对青少年口腔健康相关生活质量的影响。
在尼日利亚伊巴丹市的36所高中就读的1800名14至18岁青少年中进行了一项横断面研究。使用自填问卷收集数据，该问卷通过COHIP-SF19评估学生的社会人口学特征、口腔卫生习惯和口腔健康相关生活质量。获得的数据使用SPSS 25版进行分析，设定P值<5%。
青少年的平均年龄为15.16（±1.16）岁。许多人1094名（60.3%）每天刷牙两次或更频繁，126名（7.0%）饭后刷牙，1519名（84.4%）每三个月或更短时间更换一次牙刷。约1215名（67.5%）刷牙时间为三分钟或更长。只有少数238名（13.2%）进行牙间隙清洁，137名（7.6%）使用牙线。青少年的口腔健康相关生活质量得分在9至76分之间。共有1612名（93.5%）至少对其口腔健康相关生活质量有影响。那些更频繁刷牙（两次或更多次）的人更有可能拥有更好的口腔健康相关生活质量（OR = 1.6，95% CI = 1.1 - 2.4，P = 0.025），而那些不进行牙间隙清洁的人比其他人更有可能拥有更好的口腔健康相关生活质量（OR = 2.8，95% CI = 1.2 - 6.5，P = 0.014）。
青少年的口腔卫生习惯不理想，那些每天刷牙两次或更频繁的人对其口腔健康相关生活质量的影响较小，而那些进行牙间隙清洁的人对其口腔健康相关生活质量的影响比其他人更大。
