Quality of Life and Maxillary Defects: A Cross-Sectional Study

ABSTRACT: There has been little discussion about the quality of life of patients with maxillary defects. This article evaluates the issues related to the condition. We performed a cross-sectional study of patients with maxillary defects from referral centers in Brazil. To avoid subject burden, a que...

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Autores principales:	Nakamura,Denise Moral, Pimentel,Marina Leite, Coto,Neide Pena, Dias,Reinaldo Brito e
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Universidad de La Frontera. Facultad de Medicina 2020
Materias:	maxillofacial prosthesis quality of life maxillary diseases maxillary neoplasms palatal obturators
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0718-381X20200001000672019-12-17Quality of Life and Maxillary Defects: A Cross-Sectional StudyNakamura,Denise MoralPimentel,Marina LeiteCoto,Neide PenaDias,Reinaldo Brito e maxillofacial prosthesis quality of life maxillary diseases maxillary neoplasms palatal obturators ABSTRACT: There has been little discussion about the quality of life of patients with maxillary defects. This article evaluates the issues related to the condition. We performed a cross-sectional study of patients with maxillary defects from referral centers in Brazil. To avoid subject burden, a questionnaire was developed, based on questions from seven instruments, which dealt with domains and conclusions that were similar to those from other studies. The predictor variable was the patients’ score for each question. The outcome measure was the presence of the best-ranked items on the questionnaire as the impact factor. Six experts assessed these items and suggested which questions to include or exclude. Patients scored each item according to its occurrence and importance. Descriptive statistics and the items’ rank according to the impact factor were computed to determine whether there is a comprehensive instrument available. Thirteen patients and six professionals were included in this study. The patients’ age ranged from 24 to 72 years (mean (standard deviation, SD), 50.41 (14.46) years). We obtained a 60-item instrument from the selected questionnaires and subject interviews. Only 12 (37.5 %) out of the 32 best-rated items were verified by the existing instruments, two (6.25 %) were suggested by professionals and 18 (56.25 %) were conclusions from other studies. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to provide many features related to the quality of life in patients with maxillary defects.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessUniversidad de La Frontera. Facultad de MedicinaInternational journal of odontostomatology v.14 n.1 20202020-03-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-381X2020000100067en10.4067/S0718-381X2020000100067
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spellingShingle	maxillofacial prosthesis quality of life maxillary diseases maxillary neoplasms palatal obturators Nakamura,Denise Moral Pimentel,Marina Leite Coto,Neide Pena Dias,Reinaldo Brito e Quality of Life and Maxillary Defects: A Cross-Sectional Study
description	ABSTRACT: There has been little discussion about the quality of life of patients with maxillary defects. This article evaluates the issues related to the condition. We performed a cross-sectional study of patients with maxillary defects from referral centers in Brazil. To avoid subject burden, a questionnaire was developed, based on questions from seven instruments, which dealt with domains and conclusions that were similar to those from other studies. The predictor variable was the patients’ score for each question. The outcome measure was the presence of the best-ranked items on the questionnaire as the impact factor. Six experts assessed these items and suggested which questions to include or exclude. Patients scored each item according to its occurrence and importance. Descriptive statistics and the items’ rank according to the impact factor were computed to determine whether there is a comprehensive instrument available. Thirteen patients and six professionals were included in this study. The patients’ age ranged from 24 to 72 years (mean (standard deviation, SD), 50.41 (14.46) years). We obtained a 60-item instrument from the selected questionnaires and subject interviews. Only 12 (37.5 %) out of the 32 best-rated items were verified by the existing instruments, two (6.25 %) were suggested by professionals and 18 (56.25 %) were conclusions from other studies. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to provide many features related to the quality of life in patients with maxillary defects.
author	Nakamura,Denise Moral Pimentel,Marina Leite Coto,Neide Pena Dias,Reinaldo Brito e
author_facet	Nakamura,Denise Moral Pimentel,Marina Leite Coto,Neide Pena Dias,Reinaldo Brito e
author_sort	Nakamura,Denise Moral
title	Quality of Life and Maxillary Defects: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_short	Quality of Life and Maxillary Defects: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_full	Quality of Life and Maxillary Defects: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_fullStr	Quality of Life and Maxillary Defects: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_full_unstemmed	Quality of Life and Maxillary Defects: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_sort	quality of life and maxillary defects: a cross-sectional study
publisher	Universidad de La Frontera. Facultad de Medicina
publishDate	2020
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Quality of Life and Maxillary Defects: A Cross-Sectional Study

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