title: The responsiveness of the Liverpool Oral Rehabilitation Questionnaire (LORQ): a pilot study.
abstract: This study aimed to evaluate the responsiveness of denture patients to the Liverpool Oral Rehabilitation Questionnaire (LORQ). Changes in scores for 20 core items completed from 2000 to 2005 by 16 patients both before and after oral rehabilitation were assessed. The median age of respondents was 68 years and the median time between questionnaires was 2.6 years. Results indicated that masticatory efficiency impacted both food choice (P = .03) and social life (P = .06). After rehabilitation there was less worry about maxillary prostheses falling out (P = .07), less embarrassment while conversing (P = .02), and less worry about losing self-confidence from embarrassment caused by dentures (P = .06). Also, drooling problems deteriorated (P = .03). This exploratory study reports encouraging findings, but a larger prospective multicenter study is required to determine the responsiveness of the current version of the LORQ (version 3).
authors.affiliation: Edinburgh Dental Institute, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Adrian
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pace-Balzan
authors.forename: Christopher
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Butterworth
authors.forename: Derek
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lowe
authors.forename: Simon N
authors.initials: SN
authors.lastname: Rogers
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D019094:Dental Prosthesis, Implant-Supported; D003779:Denture Design; D003781:Denture Retention; D003824:Denture, Complete; D003828:Denture, Overlay; D003830:Denture, Partial, Fixed; D003832:Denture, Partial, Removable; D004739:England; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005518:Food Preferences; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008409:Mastication / Q000502:physiology; D008875:Middle Aged; D009062:Mouth Neoplasms / Q000534:rehabilitation / Q000601:surgery; D009065:Mouth Rehabilitation / Q000523:psychology*; D010158:Palatal Obturators; D010865:Pilot Projects; D012649:Self Concept; D012798:Sialorrhea / Q000503:physiopathology; D013060:Speech / Q000502:physiology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires