TY - JOUR
T1 - Structural equation modeling to detect predictors of oral health-related quality of life among Japanese university students
T2 - a prospective cohort study
AU - Saho, Hikari
AU - Ekuni, Daisuke
AU - Kataoka, Kota
AU - Tabata, Ayano
AU - Toyama, Naoki
AU - Sugiura, Yoshio
AU - Islam, Md Monirul
AU - Iwasaki, Yoshiaki
AU - Morita, Manabu
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors are grateful to Dr. Chiaki Inabu (Junpukai Daiku Dental Clinic, Okayama, Japan) for data entry, and to Dr. Tetsuji Azuma (Department of Community Oral Health, Asahi University School of Dentistry, Mizuho, Japan), Dr. Mayu Yamane-Takeuchi, and Dr. Shinsuke Mizutani (Section of Geriatric Dentistry and Perioperative Medicine in Dentistry, Division of Maxillofacial Diagnostic and Surgical Sciences, Faculty of Dental Science, Kyushu University; OBT Research Center, Faculty of Dental Science, Kyushu University, Japan) for data collection.
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© 2019, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2019/12/1
Y1 - 2019/12/1
N2 - Purpose: This prospective cohort study of Japanese university students aimed to identify factors that might affect oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) and longitudinal relationships over a period of 3 years. Methods: Students (n = 487) provided complete data before entering and 3 years later (before university graduation) participated in the present study. Decayed, missing, and filled teeth (DMFT) scores, community periodontal index, ratios (%) of teeth with bleeding on probing, and malocclusion were determined during oral examinations. The questionnaire addressed age, sex, self-rated oral health, oral health behavior, subjective oral symptoms, and OHRQoL determined using the oral health impact profile (OHIP)-14. Associations were analyzed using structural equation modeling (SEM). Results: The OHRQoL significantly worsened according to OHIP-14 total score (p = 0.001). The final model in the symptoms of SEM analysis showed that OHRQoL at follow-up positively correlated with OHRQoL at baseline. Self-rated oral health was directly associated with the OHRQoL at baseline (p < 0.05). Conclusions: This study determined that OHRQoL at baseline was a direct predictor, and that self-rated oral health were indirect predictors of OHRQoL at follow-up among Japanese university students.
AB - Purpose: This prospective cohort study of Japanese university students aimed to identify factors that might affect oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) and longitudinal relationships over a period of 3 years. Methods: Students (n = 487) provided complete data before entering and 3 years later (before university graduation) participated in the present study. Decayed, missing, and filled teeth (DMFT) scores, community periodontal index, ratios (%) of teeth with bleeding on probing, and malocclusion were determined during oral examinations. The questionnaire addressed age, sex, self-rated oral health, oral health behavior, subjective oral symptoms, and OHRQoL determined using the oral health impact profile (OHIP)-14. Associations were analyzed using structural equation modeling (SEM). Results: The OHRQoL significantly worsened according to OHIP-14 total score (p = 0.001). The final model in the symptoms of SEM analysis showed that OHRQoL at follow-up positively correlated with OHRQoL at baseline. Self-rated oral health was directly associated with the OHRQoL at baseline (p < 0.05). Conclusions: This study determined that OHRQoL at baseline was a direct predictor, and that self-rated oral health were indirect predictors of OHRQoL at follow-up among Japanese university students.
KW - Cohort study
KW - Oral health-related quality of life
KW - Self-rated oral health
KW - Structural equation modeling
KW - The oral health impact profile-14
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U2 - 10.1007/s11136-019-02251-4
DO - 10.1007/s11136-019-02251-4
M3 - Article
C2 - 31359239
AN - SCOPUS:85069947108
SN - 0962-9343
VL - 28
SP - 3213
EP - 3224
JO - Quality of Life Research
JF - Quality of Life Research
IS - 12
ER -
