EVALUATING A BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL MODEL OF ORAL HEALTH

描述：当前，主要是生物医学的概念化 口腔健康的人很大程度上无法提供有关负担的信息 口腔疾病对个人或社区或心理社会的影响 有助于预防、发展和影响的因素 口腔疾病。在牙科方面相对较少受到关注。 心理社会因素在口腔健康中的作用，尽管 医学上关于心理社会因素具有重要意义的提示证据 致病原因。创建更具包容性的 口腔健康的模式是了解各种因素之间的关系 可能包括在更全面的生物心理社会中的领域 模型，如生物、心理、环境和社会 各种因素。系统地考察了它们之间的关系 领域的提出，利用30年的生物医学，牙科和 心理社会档案数据来自具有良好特征的 标准老龄化研究(NAS)及其牙科组成部分--牙科 纵向研究(DLS)。 本项目的具体目的是：1)考察两国关系 一般健康指数和三个口腔健康领域之间的关系： 口腔健康行为(OHB)、口腔健康状况(OHS)和口腔功能 (2)考察心理社会因素与心理健康的关系。 三个口腔健康领域中的每一个；以及3)检查它们之间的关系 心理社会因素与个体自评影响的关系 口腔疾病对他们日常功能的影响(与口腔健康相关的质量 生活：OHQOL)。

DESCRIPTION: The current, predominantly biomedical, conceptualization of oral health is largely unable to provide information about the burden of oral disease to the individual or the community, or the psychosocial factors which contribute to the prevention, development and impact of oral disease. Relatively little attention has been paid in dentistry to the role of psychosocial factors in oral health, despite strongly suggestive evidence in medicine that psychosocial factors are significant causes of morbidity. The first step toward creating a more inclusive model of oral health is to understand the relationships among the various domains which might be included in a more comprehensive, biopsychosocial model, such as biological, psychological, environmental, and social factors. A systematic investigation of the relations between these domains is proposed, utilizing 30 years of biomedical, dental and psychosocial archival data from the well characterized population of the Normative Aging Study (NAS) and its dental component, the Dental Longitudinal Study (DLS). The specific aims of this project are: 1) to examine the relations between general health indices and each of three oral health domains: oral health behaviors (OHB), oral health status (OHS), and oral function (OF); 2) to examine the relations between psychosocial factors and each of the three oral health domains; and 3) to examine the relations between psychosocial factors and individuals' self assessed impact of oral disease on their daily functioning (oral health related quality of life: OHQOL).