title: Oral health of 65-year olds in Sweden and Norway: a global question and ICF, the latest conceptual model from WHO.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The aims of this study were to identify explanatory factors of satisfaction with oral health among Norwegian and Swedish 65 year olds in terms of items from four different domains of ICF and to compare the strengths of the various ICF domains in explaining satisfaction with oral health. Further it was to assess whether the explanatory factors of ICF domains vary between Norway and Sweden.
  
  
  METHODS
  In 2007, standardized questionnaires were mailed to all the residents in certain counties of Sweden and Norway who were born in 1942. Response rates were 73.1% (n = 6078) in Sweden and 56.0% (n = 4062) in Norway.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In total, 33 questions based on four different ICF domains were chosen to explain satisfaction with oral health. Logistic regression showed that four different ICF domains in terms of body function, body structure, activity/participation and environmental factors explained, respectively, 53%, 31%, 12% and 34% of the explanatory variance in the satisfaction with oral health. In the final analysis, only nine items were statistically significant (p < 0.05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This study indicates that ICF as a conceptual model could cover a broad spectrum of factors embedded in OHRQoL measured by a global question in Sweden and Norway. Nine items, representing four ICF domains, were important in the final model for explaining satisfaction with oral health.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dentistry, Örebro County Council, Örebro, Sweden. gunnar.ekback@orebroll.se
authors.forename: Gunnar
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ekbäck
authors.forename: Anne Nordrehaug
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Åstrøm
authors.forename: Kristin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Klock
authors.forename: Sven
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ordell
authors.forename: Lennart
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Unell
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009664:Norway; D009909:Oral Health / Q000145:classification*; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D011788:Quality of Life; D018434:Sickness Impact Profile; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013548:Sweden; D014944:World Health Organization