title: Black-white difference in oral hygiene performance test scores. A preliminary finding.
abstract: This paper describes OHPT (Oral Hygiene Performance Test) which was used to measure race differences between African-American and European-American elderly 65 years old and above in performance of daily oral hygiene activities. A total of 80 community-dwelling subjects of which 43 were African-American and 37 European-American participated in the study which involved completion of a battery of functional status measurements including the OHPT. The instrument detected differences in performance as recorded by the length of time to complete each of the 17-items of OHPT. The instrument, the Oral Hygiene Performance Test, is a direct observation measure which objectively quantifies the ability to perform oral hygiene and thus reduces subjective evaluation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Preventive Dentistry and Community Health, School of Dentistry, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
authors.forename: S A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Doherty
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ross
authors.forename: O W
authors.initials: OW
authors.lastname: Presley
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D001741:Black or African American / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic / Q000379:methods; D008297:Male; D009910:Oral Hygiene / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D009911:Oral Hygiene Index; D011897:Random Allocation; D013714:Tennessee; D044465:White People / Q000706:statistics & numerical data