Exploring associations between multidimensional frailty and oral health in community-dwelling older people. A pilot study.

Autor: van der Heijden EM; Dental Practice Poswick and Van der Heijden, Hilversum, Netherlands., Klüter WJ; BENECOMO, Flemish-Netherlands Geriatric Oral Research Group, Nijmegen, Netherlands.; College of Dental Sciences, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands., van der Maarel-Wierink CD; BENECOMO, Flemish-Netherlands Geriatric Oral Research Group, Nijmegen, Netherlands.; Department of Oral Medicine, Academic Center for Dentistry Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam and VU University, Amsterdam, Netherlands., Gobbens RJJ; BENECOMO, Flemish-Netherlands Geriatric Oral Research Group, Nijmegen, Netherlands.; Faculty of Health, Sports and Social Work, Inholland University of Applied Sciences, Amsterdam, Netherlands.; Zonnehuisgroep Amstelland, Amstelveen, Netherlands.; Department of Primary and Interdisciplinary Care, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Special care in dentistry : official publication of the American Association of Hospital Dentists, the Academy of Dentistry for the Handicapped, and the American Society for Geriatric Dentistry [Spec Care Dentist] 2022 Jul; Vol. 42 (4), pp. 361-368. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Jan 10.
DOI: 10.1111/scd.12691
Abstrakt: Objective: To determine the associations between four validated multidimensional self-report frailty scales and nine indices of oral health in community-dwelling older persons.
Materials and Methods: This pilot study was conducted in a sample of 208 older persons aged 70 years and older who visited two dental practices in the Netherlands. Frailty status was measured by four different self-report frailty questionnaires: Tilburg Frailty Indicator (TFI), Groningen Frailty Indicator (GFI), Sunfrail Checklist (SC), and the Sherbrooke Postal Questionnaire (SPQ). Oral health was assessed by two calibrated examiners.
Results: The prevalence of frailty according to the four frailty measures TFI, GFI, SC, and SPQ was 32.8%, 31.5%, 24.5%, and 49.7%, respectively. The SC correlated with four oral health variables (DMFT, number of teeth, percentage of occlusal contacts, Plaque Index), the TFI with three (number of teeth, percentage of occlusal contacts, Plaque Index), the GFI only with DPSI, and the SPQ with the number of teeth and the number of occlusal contacts.
Conclusion: Of the studied multidimensional frailty scales, the SC and TFI were correlated with most oral health variables (four and three, respectively). However, it should be noticed that these correlations were small.
Clinical Relevance: The SC and TFI might help to identify older people with risk of poor oral health so that preventive care can be used to ensure deterioration of oral health and maintenance of quality of life. Vice versa early detection of frailty by oral care professionals could contribute to interprofessional management of frailty.
(© 2022 The Authors. Special Care in Dentistry published by Special Care Dentistry Association and Wiley Periodicals LLC.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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