DENTAL SELF-CARE HABITS AND SELF-REPORTED CARIES AMONGST THE ELDERLY IN SOUTH-WESTERN KENYA
Date
2020-07-08Author
Amulla, Walter Ogutu
Obey, Jackie K
Onyango, Dorothy Onjwa
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Background: Dental diseases continue to plague Methods: A cross-sectional analytical study was done
elderly populations worldwide with multiple effects on among a random sample of 300 elderly persons in
health, nutrition and wellbeing. Nevertheless, little is southwestern
known concerning geriatric oral hygiene behavior and prevalence, sociodemographic characteristics as well as
its association with dental caries in rural Kenya. This dental self-care habits was gathered through structured
knowledge could be instrumental in shaping geriatric questionnaires and analyzed on SPSS v.25. Association
oral health interventions. between variables was explored using Pearson’s chi-
Kenya.
Data pertaining to caries square test and multiple logistic regression.
Aims: To explore relationship between dental self-care
habits and self-reported caries amongst the elderly in Results: Prevalence of self-reported caries was 52.3%.
south-western Kenya. The distribution of caries differed significantly across