Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Does maternal oral health predict child oral health-related quality of life in adulthood? | Shearer et al. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9 50 http content 9 1 50 HEALTH AND QUALITY OF LIFE OUTCOMES RESEARCH Open Access Does maternal oral health predict child oral health-related quality of life in adulthood Dara M Shearer1 W Murray Thomson1 Jonathan M Broadbent1 and Richie Poulton2 Abstract Background A parental family history of poor oral health may influence the oral-health-related quality of life OHRQOL of adults. Objectives To determine whether the oral health of mothers of young children can predict the OHRQOL of those same children when they reach adulthood. Methods Oral examination and interview data from the Dunedin Study s age-32 assessment as well as maternal self-rated oral health data from the age-5 assessment were used. The main outcome measure was study members short-form Oral Health Impact Profile OHIP-14 at age 32. Analyses involved 827 individuals of the surviving cohort dentally examined at both ages who also completed the OHIP-14 questionnaire at age 32 and whose mothers were interviewed at the age-5 assessment. Results There was a consistent gradient of relative risk across the categories of maternal self-rated oral health status at the age-5 assessment for having one or more impacts in the overall OHIP-14 scale whereby risk was greatest among the study members whose mothers rated their oral health as poor edentulous and lowest among those with an excellent fairly good rating. In addition there was a gradient in the age-32 mean OHIP-14 score and in the mean number of OHIP-14 impacts at age 32 across the categories of maternal self-rated oral health status. The higher risk of having one or more impacts in the psychological discomfort subscale when mother rated her oral health as poor edentulous was statistically significant. Conclusions These data suggest that maternal self-rated oral health when a child is young has a bearing on that child s OHRQOL almost three decades later. The adult offspring of mothers .
