Promotion of oral health behavior change among older population

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K20637
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Social dentistry
• Research Institution: Tokyo Medical and Dental University
• Principal Investigator: OHARA Yuki 東京医科歯科大学, 大学院医歯学総合研究科, 講師 (00599037)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 自己効力感 / 口腔保健 / 主観評価 / 行動変容 / ヘルスプロモーション

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We investigated that subjective oral health was the one of the important factors influencing oral health behavior among older population. Few studies revealed the validity and reliability of rating scale for assessing subjective oral-health Scale (SOHS). Therefore we developed newly simple assessment scale for self-rated oral health scale among community-dwelling older population.
The final version of the scale consisted of 4 items. Cronbach's alpha was 0.866. There were significant correlation with oral health related quality of life (P<0.05, r = 0.706) in total scores on the SOHS and test-rest reliability was established (P<0.05, r = 0.628). Therefore simple assessment tool of self-rated oral health scale that we developed has good reliability and validity.

Free Research Field

老年歯科