Systematic review of factors influencing oral healthrelated quality of life in children in Africa

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dc.citation.doi10.4102/PHCFM.V11I1.1943en_ZA
dc.citation.epage12
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dc.contributor.authorKolisa Y
dc.contributor.authorYengopal V
dc.contributor.authorIgumbor J
dc.contributor.authorNqcobo C
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-10T12:02:56Z
dc.date.available2020-03-10T12:02:56Z
dc.date.issued2019-07-24
dc.description.abstractBackground: Oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) is influenced by cultural and societal context. Existing OHRQoL children measurement tools have been conceptualised in high-income countries. Probing whether the factors influencing OHRQoL are context-reliant in the African setting is necessary and is the purpose of the current review. Aim: To investigate if the factors influencing OHRQoL are context-reliant. Methods: Seven databases were searched using search terms (‘oral health’; and ‘quality of life’, ‘health-related quality of life’, ‘patient-reported outcomes’, ‘well-being’; and ‘child*’, ‘adolescents’, ‘teen*’, ‘youth’; and ‘determinants’, ‘factors’, ‘predictors’; and ‘oral health quality of life tools/instruments/scales’; and ‘Africa*’). Abstracts identified were exported to a reference software manager. Three of the authors used specific selection criteria to review, firstly, 307 abstracts and, secondly, 30 full papers. Data were extracted from these papers using a pre-designed data extraction form, after which quantitative synthesis of data was performed. Results: Key factors influencing OHRQoL followed an existing conceptual framework where environmental and individual factors in the form of socio-economic status (SES), area of residence and children psyche status, and the presence of any oral condition other than dental caries were reported among child populations in Africa. Conclusion: There is preliminary evidence to suggest an association between individual factors such as children’s psyche and oral problems, excluding dental caries, and environmental determinants such as area of residence and SES in children’s OHRQoL in African children. The finding that dental caries was not a key factor in child-oral health is unexpected. There seemed to be a contextual viewpoint underpinning the current OHRQoL frameworks and OHRQoL was context-reliant.en_ZA
dc.description.librarianKM2020en_ZA
dc.facultyHealth Sciencesen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationSCOPUSen_ZA
dc.identifier.issn20712928
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/29083
dc.journal.issue1en_ZA
dc.journal.link10.4102/phcfm.v11i1.1943en_ZA
dc.journal.titleAfrican Journal of Primary Health Care and Family Medicineen_ZA
dc.journal.volume11en_ZA
dc.rights© 2019. The Authors. Licensee: AOSIS. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License.en_ZA
dc.schoolOral Health Sciencesen_ZA
dc.subjectOral Healthen_ZA
dc.titleSystematic review of factors influencing oral healthrelated quality of life in children in Africaen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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