Table 2.
Relationship between oral health for subjects of dysphagia persons with nasogastric tube feeding and the hospitalization due to aspiration pneumonia.
| Variables | Terms | N | Yes (n = 55) |
No (n = 73) |
p |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n (%) | n (%) | ||||
| Halitosis | None | 67 | 19 (34.55) | 48 (65.75) | 0.001 |
| Yes | 61 | 36 (65.45) | 25 (34.25) | ||
| Deposition of oropharyngeal secretion | None | 70 | 20 (36.36) | 50 (68.49) | 0.001 |
| Yes | 58 | 35 (63.64) | 23 (31.51) | ||
| Dry mouth | None | 94 | 32 (58.18) | 62 (84.93) | 0.001 |
| Yes | 34 | 23 (41.82) | 11 (15.07) | ||
| Gum bleeding spontaneously | None | 117 | 51 (92.73) | 66 (90.41) | 0.064 |
| Yes | 11 | 4 (7.27) | 7 (9.59) | ||
| Closing mouth and not allow to brush | None | 84 | 30 (54.55) | 54 (73.97) | 0.022 |
| Yes | 44 | 25 (45.45) | 19 (26.03) | ||
| Dentate | Edentulous | 99 | 19 (34.55) | 15 (20.55) | 0.076 |
| Dentate | 29 | 36 (65.45) | 58 (79.45) | ||
| Brushing ability by caregivers | Completely | 110 | 47 (85.45) | 63 (86.30) | 0.891 |
| Partially | 18 | 8 (14.55) | 10 (13.70) | ||
| Gum bleeding due to brushing | None | 74 | 31 (56.36) | 43 (58.90) | 0.773 |
| Yes | 54 | 24 (43.64) | 30 (41.10) |