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Oral Health Impact Profile, E uro Q ol, and Assessment of Quality of Life instruments as quality of life and health‐utility measures of oral health
Author(s) -
Brennan David S.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
european journal of oral sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.802
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1600-0722
pISSN - 0909-8836
DOI - 10.1111/eos.12035
Subject(s) - oral health , eq 5d , quality of life (healthcare) , medicine , discriminative model , health related quality of life , gerontology , dentistry , nursing , disease , artificial intelligence , computer science
Oral‐specific measures are often preferred to examine outcomes of oral disorders. However, generic measures can add additional information, including health utility. The aim was to assess the Oral Health Impact Profile ( OHIP ), EuroQol ( EQ ‐5D), and Assessment of Quality of Life ( AQ oL) instruments in relation to oral health in terms of their discriminative and convergent validities. Data were collected from adults, 30–61 yr of age, in Australia by mailed survey during 2009 and 2010, including the OHIP ‐14, the EQ ‐5D, and the AQ oL, a range of self‐reported oral health variables, and by self‐rated oral and general health. Responses were collected from 1093 subjects (a response rate of 39.1%). The OHIP , the EQ ‐5D, and the AQ oL were associated with oral health variables, with effect sizes ranging from 0.6 to 1.1 for the OHIP , from 0.3 to 0.5 for the EQ ‐5D, and from 0.4 to 0.6 for the AQ oL. The OHIP tended to be more strongly correlated with self‐rated oral health (rho = −0.5) than with general health (rho = −0.3), whilst the EQ ‐5D and the AQ oL were less strongly correlated with oral health (rho = −0.3 and −0.3, respectively) than with general health (rho = −0.4 and −0.5, respectively). Whilst the OHIP was more sensitive to differences in oral health, the generic measures of EQ ‐5D and AQ oL both exhibited discriminative validity and convergent validity in relation to oral health variables, supporting their use in oral health studies.