IADR Abstract Archives
Systematic Review of Nonmalignant Oral Disease-specific dPROMs for Adult Patients
Objectives: Dental patient-reported outcome measures (dPROMs) are instruments we need for assessing treatment efficacy for dental interventions because they measure how much dental patients are affected by oral diseases. They can be differentiated into outcome measures for all oral diseases, so called oral disease-generic dPROMs, and measures for a specific oral disease, so called oral disease-specific dPROMs.
The aim of this systematic review was to identify the psychometrically validated oral disease-specific dPROMs for adult patients and the dental patient-reported outcomes (dPROs) they measure.
Methods: This systematic review searched Ovid Medline, Embase, PsyclNFO, and the Cochrane databases along with hand searching, through January 7, 2019, to identify English-language, multi-item dPROMs for adult dental patients with a specific oral disease. We counted the number of published questionnaires and the number of dPROMs. dPROMs for oral diseases were differentiated from dPROMs for oral manifestations of systematic diseases.
Results: We retrieved 3,786 unique references from the four databases and identified 32 questionnaires, which were published from 1995 till 2018. They could be differentiated into 28 questionnaires that represented dental patients impact from oral disease and 4 questionnaires that represented oral impacts from systemic diseases with an oral manifestation. All questionnaires together contained 106 dPROMs.
Conclusions: A substantial number of psychometrically validated tools to measure the impact of specific oral disease on patients, i.e. dPROMs, are available. The majority of these tools measure very specific aspects of the patient's oral health experience and most tools target diseases only located within the stomatognathic system as compared to oral manifestations of systemic diseases.
The aim of this systematic review was to identify the psychometrically validated oral disease-specific dPROMs for adult patients and the dental patient-reported outcomes (dPROs) they measure.
Methods: This systematic review searched Ovid Medline, Embase, PsyclNFO, and the Cochrane databases along with hand searching, through January 7, 2019, to identify English-language, multi-item dPROMs for adult dental patients with a specific oral disease. We counted the number of published questionnaires and the number of dPROMs. dPROMs for oral diseases were differentiated from dPROMs for oral manifestations of systematic diseases.
Results: We retrieved 3,786 unique references from the four databases and identified 32 questionnaires, which were published from 1995 till 2018. They could be differentiated into 28 questionnaires that represented dental patients impact from oral disease and 4 questionnaires that represented oral impacts from systemic diseases with an oral manifestation. All questionnaires together contained 106 dPROMs.
Conclusions: A substantial number of psychometrically validated tools to measure the impact of specific oral disease on patients, i.e. dPROMs, are available. The majority of these tools measure very specific aspects of the patient's oral health experience and most tools target diseases only located within the stomatognathic system as compared to oral manifestations of systemic diseases.