Factors affecting oral health status in Schizophrenia patients
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The purposes of this study were to assess oral health status of schizophrenia patients and to evaluate factors that affect oral health status. Participants consisted of 185 schizophrenia in-patients at Somdet Chaopraya Institute of Psychiatry. During March- April 2016, specific questionnaire, medical and dental treatment form and oral health examination form were used to collect 3 datasets which the factors were age, sex, occupation, income, education, brushing, smoking, self-assessment of oral health, dental treatment utilization, number of admission, length of stay in psychiatric hospital, and type of anti-psychotic medication used. Decay Missing Filling Tooth index (DMF), Community Periodontal Index (CPI) and Probing depth (PD) were used for oral health examination. Data were analyzed with descriptive statistics and stepwise multiple regression analysis. Results showed that DMFT was 10.96 teeth per person and 34.1 % of them had periodontal disease. The factors that significantly related to DMFT (p-value<0.05) were age, number of admission, length of stay in the hospital and self-assessment of oral health. Whereas age, smoking and 1st generation anti-psychotics medication were significantly related to periodontal pocket depth (p-value<0.05). Therefore, dental staff should work together with psychiatrists, nurses and caregivers to follow patients having the risk factors and provide appropriate dental treatment plan as well as preventive dental care.
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