Abstract
Abstract Objective: to suggest a composite indicator that identifies the oral health condition of institutionalized elderly persons. Method: an observational and cross-sectional study was performed. A total of 315 elderly persons were investigated in long-stay care facilities for the elderly in the city of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. Such individuals underwent an epidemiological evaluation of their oral health conditions, based on the DMFT index, CPI and the PAL (periodontal attachment loss) index. Factor analysis was used to identify a relatively small number of common factors by principal component analysis. Results: five oral health variables were included in factor analysis, and using the Kaiser criterion, which considers the percentage of variance explained by the factors, a single factor which together explained 79.7% of the total variance of the variables included in the analysis model was selected. This factor was analyzed and interpreted according to the dimension to which it related, and was entitled the factor of Dental Functionality. Conclusion: this factor generated an objective indicator to characterize the oral health of the elderly in long-term care facilities for the elderly of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, and represents a parameter for studies of the oral health outcomes of this elderly population. It also revealed a change in the dental profile of this population with more teeth present in the mouth and a reduction in edentulism.
Highlights
Objective: to suggest a composite indicator that identifies the oral health condition of institutionalized elderly persons
That the speed at which the process of demographic and alternative indexes of oral health consider the epidemiological transition has taken place in the particularities of the elderly population, they do so country has resulted in a number of important issues in an isolated manner, making it difficult to identify for health managers and researchers, mainly due elderly persons who truly present an unfavorable oral to the social and economic inequalities that have health condition from such information
Health services must adapt to the increasing indexes of oral health, which were applied among demands of chronic diseases and disabilities, which the institutionalized elderly in the city of Natal, Rio are common to the elderly, especially in Brazil
Summary
Of alternative indexes, such as functional edentulism, occluding tooth pairs, the presence of a shortened. The procedures performed during data collection submitted to factor analysis, where they were reduced consisted of the application of a sociodemographic to factors by the analysis of main components, in questionnaire and evaluation of the oral health order to produce the composite indicator. It was conditions of the elderly persons through an intraoral initially observed whether the alternative examination.
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