title: Oral health related quality of life among imprisoned Dutch forensic psychiatric patients.
abstract: Because dental health and oral pathology may affect forensic psychiatric patients' well being, it is important to be able to assess oral health related quality of life (OH-QoL) in these patients. Two studies were conducted among Dutch forensic psychiatric male patients to assess the psychometric properties and some potential predictors of the Oral Health Impact Profile-14 (OHIP-14) as a measure of OH-QoL. Study 1 involved 40 patients who completed the OHIP-14 before receiving professional dental care and were retested 3 months later. The internal consistency was good, the test-retest correlations were fair, and over the 3 months follow-up no significant changes in OH-QoL were observed. Study 2 consisted of 39 patients who completed an improved version of the original OHIP-14, as well as measures to validate of the OHIP. Dental anxiety and unhealthy dentition jointly explained 26.7% of the variance in OH-QoL, and the better patients performed their oral hygiene behavior, the better their OH-QoL. It is concluded that the Dutch OHIP-14 is a useful instrument, and that nurses, especially in forensic nursing, should pay particularly attention to dental anxiety when encouraging patients to visit OH professionals and to perform adequate oral hygiene self-care.
authors.affiliation: Department of Social & Organizational Psychology, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands. yvonne@apbuunk.com
authors.forename: Yvonne A B
authors.initials: YA
authors.lastname: Buunk-Werkhoven
authors.forename: Arie
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dijkstra
authors.forename: Rob M H
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Schaub
authors.forename: Cees P
authors.initials: CP
authors.lastname: van der Schans
authors.forename: Marinus
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Spreen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D003729:Dental Care; D003753:Dental Health Surveys / Q000379:methods; D053604:Forensic Nursing; D005555:Forensic Psychiatry; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009426:Netherlands; D009909:Oral Health; D009910:Oral Hygiene; D011329:Prisoners / Q000523:psychology*; D011594:Psychometrics; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology*; D018434:Sickness Impact Profile; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000592:standards*