Table 8.

Association of patient’s denture satisfaction and oral health-related quality of life at 3 months with psychological factors of patients, dentist’s communication skills, and technical quality of denture in both experimental and control groups

Variables	Patient denture satisfaction scores
	Experimental group (n=66)		Control group (n=50)
	Correlation coefficient	P	Correlation coefficient	P
Psychological factors
Depression	−0.174	0.162	−0.190	0.185
Anxiety	−0.140	0.262	−0.187	0.194
Stress	−0.167	0.180	−0.261	0.067
Self-efficacy	0.368	0.002*	−0.113	0.435
Personality domains
Extraversion	0.006	0.961	0.087	0.547
Agreeableness	0.012	0.921	0.201	0.162
Conscientiousness	0.156	0.210	0.170	0.238
Neuroticism	−0.166	0.183	−0.170	0.237
Openness	−0.003	0.978	−0.040	0.784
Dentist communication skills
Patient rated dentist communication skills (ABIM)	0.652	0.000*	0.577	0.000*
Expert rated dentist communication skills (Kalamazoo)	0.093	0.456	0.110	0.447
Technical quality of denture
Expert rated denture quality (FAD)	0.151	0.227	−0.176	0.221
Variables	Oral health-related quality of life scores
	Experimental group (n=66)		Control group (n=50)
	Correlation coefficient	P	Correlation coefficient	P
Psychological factors
Depression	0.147	0.240	0.228	0.111
Anxiety	0.120	0.339	0.137	0.342
Stress	0.113	0.366	0.097	0.504
Self-efficacy	−0.222	0.073	−0.226	0.115
Personality domains
Extraversion	−0.051	0.683	0.061	0.676
Agreeableness	−0.087	0.486	−0.173	0.230
Conscientiousness	−0.243	0.049*	−0.239	0.094
Neuroticism	0.215	0.083	0.186	0.196
Openness	0.256	0.256	−0.111	0.444
Dentist communication skills
Patient rated communication skills (ABIM)	−0.249	0.043*	−0.321	0.023*
Expert rated communication skills (Kalamazoo)	0.010	0.939	−0.154	0.287
Technical quality of denture
Expert rated denture quality (FAD)	0.064	0.608	0.167	0.246

FAD: Functional assessment of denture, ABIM: American Board of Internal Medicine. *Significance-P<0.05