Table 5.
Prevalence, extent and severity of impacts by OHIP-14 subscale grouped by pre-seniors and seniors
| |
Community |
LTC |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Pre-seniors (n=629) |
Seniors (n=501) |
P-value |
Pre-seniors (n=33) |
Seniors (n=297) |
P-value | |
|
Prevalence: % reporting 1+ impacts fairly/very often (no.) |
28.8 (181) |
22.0 (110) |
0.009* |
21.2 (7) |
25.3 (75) |
0.610* |
|
Extent: mean no. of items reported fairly/very often (SD) |
0.73 (1.73) |
0.49 (1.40) |
0.007** |
0.45 (1.33) |
0.94 (2.32) |
0.456** |
| Severity: mean OHIP-14 score (SD) | 6.22 (8.0) | 4.75 (6.92) | <0.001** | 4.30 (7.29) | 5.71 (9.80) | 0.867** |
*P-value obtained from the Chi-squared test.
**P-value obtained from the Mann–Whitney U test.