Does intellectual disability affect the development of dental caries in patients with cerebral palsy?
| Autor: | Fernanda Oliveira-Ferreira, Carlos Eduardo Pinto Alcântara, Maria Letícia Ramos-Jorge, Isabella Mota-Veloso, Sandra Aparecida Marinho, Rafaela Nogueira Moreira |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Dental Caries Logistic regression Affect (psychology) Severity of Illness Index Cerebral palsy Spastic cerebral palsy Raven's Progressive Matrices Borderline intellectual functioning Risk Factors Intellectual Disability Intellectual disability Developmental and Educational Psychology medicine Humans In patient Child Cerebral Palsy medicine.disease Motor Skills Disorders Clinical Psychology Cross-Sectional Studies Logistic Models Social Class Child Preschool Multivariate Analysis Physical therapy Female Psychology Brazil |
| Zdroj: | Research in developmental disabilities. 33(5) |
| ISSN: | 1873-3379 |
| Popis: | The aim of this study was to evaluate if the severity of intellectual disability is a factor that affects the development of dental cavities in patients with cerebral palsy. This cross-sectional study was conducted on 165 individuals who were selected from a physical rehabilitation center, a special public school and a regular public school. Of these, 76 individuals had been diagnosed with spastic cerebral palsy and 89 had no neurological impairment. The subjects were matched based on age and gender and selected randomly by lottery. All patients were examined to determine the number of dental cavities, and tested for their intellectual functioning (Raven Test) and motor abilities. The study showed that children with CP who presented with intellectual disabilities had a larger number of dental cavities than children with CP without intellectual disabilities. Considering intellectual functioning and motor impairment in the multivariate logistic regression, only intellectual functioning was found to have a significant effect on the development of dental cavities. These results suggest that intellectual disability can be considered a contributing factor for the development of dental caries in patients with cerebral palsy. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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