Evaluation of quality of life in Chilean patients with orthognathic surgery. A cohort study.
| Autor: | Macarena Cea-Herrera, Gerald Loyola-Parra, Günther Preisler, Juan Pablo Alister., Claudia Letelier-Fuentealba, Pedro Christian Aravena |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of Oral Research, Vol 5, Iss 8, Pp 302-306 (2016) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 0719-2460 0719-2479 |
| DOI: | 10.17126/joralres.2016.063 |
| Popis: | To compare the presurgical and immediate postsurgical quality of life in Chilean patients with orthognathic surgery. Material and Methods: Cohort study. The study included 30 patients (mean age 20.73, 53.33% male) who underwent orthognathic surgery primarily for severe skeletal abnormalities, (17 surgeries, 56.7%) and moderate skeletal abnormalities (12 surgeries, 40%), from three Chilean hospitals between February and June 2016. Patients were asked to answer the World Health Organization quality of life Bref version questionnaire (WHOQOL-BREF) validated in Spanish to measure quality of life (QoL) two weeks before and three months after the surgery. Scores for general QoL and for every domain of QoL were described. Variations in the scores of general QoL were analyzed according to sex and severity of orofacial malformation (mild, moderate or severe) (t-test p |
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