Open AccessValidation of dental impact on daily living questionnaire among tribal population of India
Author(s) -
CV Deepan Kumar,
Shamaz Mohamed,
Chandrashekar Janakiram,
Jeena Joseph
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
contemporary clinical dentistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.289
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 0976-237X
pISSN - 0976-2361
DOI - 10.4103/0976-237x.166841
Subject(s) - quality of life (healthcare) , activities of daily living , medicine , population , descriptive statistics , oral hygiene , spearman's rank correlation coefficient , gerontology , hygiene , construct validity , clinical psychology , environmental health , dentistry , psychometrics , psychiatry , statistics , nursing , mathematics , pathology
Oral conditions are known to affect various aspects of quality of life. Similarly, the social consequence of the quality of life in the day to day living is also equally important. Several studies have quantified the social consequences of diseases through activity limitations in people's daily living. The instruments which cover a broad spectrum of life are proposed to be compared with the clinical oral hygiene status of people from different social classes.