Association between high psychological distress and poor oral health-related quality of life (OHQoL) in Japanese communi
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(2020) 25:82
RESEARCH ARTICLE
Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine Open Access
Association between high psychological distress and poor oral health-related quality of life (OHQoL) in Japanese communitydwelling people: the Nagasaki Islands Study Ai Sekiguchi1, Shin-ya Kawashiri1* , Hideaki Hayashida2, Yuki Nagaura3, Kenichi Nobusue4, Fumiaki Nonaka4, Hirotomo Yamanashi3, Masayasu Kitamura2, Koji Kawasaki5, Hideki Fukuda6, Takahiro Iwasaki7, Toshiyuki Saito2 and Takahiro Maeda1,3
Abstract Background: We investigated the association between psychological distress and oral health status/oral healthrelated quality of life (OHQoL) in Japanese community-dwelling people. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study using data from the Nagasaki Islands Study. A total of 1183 (455 men and 728 women) has been analyzed in this study. Psychological distress was measured using the Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K6). Oral health status was measured by dental examination. The OHQoL was measured using the General Oral Health Assessment Index (GOHAI). We defined the total score of ≥5 points on the K6 as high psychological distress (high-K6 group). Results: The multiple linear regression analysis to identify the GOHAI showed that gender, K6, the total number of teeth, the number of dental caries, and visiting a dental clinic within the past 6 months significantly associated with the GOHAI. Among all of these variables, high-K6 (≥ 5) was a substantial contributing factor of the GOHAI (β = − 0.23, 95% Cl − 2.31 to −1.41, p < 0.0001). Conclusions: It is likely that the individual with high psychological distress was strongly related to poor OHQoL even in the general population. Keywords: General population, GOHAI, K6, Oral health, OHQoL, Periodontitis, Psychological distress
* Correspondence: [email protected] 1 Department of Community Medicine, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, 1-12-4 Sakamoto, Nagasaki 852-8523, Japan Full list of author information is available at the end of the article © The Author(s). 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available
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