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. 2006 Feb;34(1):18-24.
doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0528.2006.00262.x.

An empirically derived population-response model of the short form of the Oral Health Impact Profile

N M Nuttall  1 , G D Slade, A E Sanders, J G Steele, P F Allen, S Lahti
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An empirically derived population-response model of the short form of the Oral Health Impact Profile

N M Nuttall et al. Community Dent Oral Epidemiol. 2006 Feb.

Abstract

Objective: The aim of this paper was to model the consequences of dental conditions from an empirical basis and to test the model's ability to predict response combinations.

Methods: The model was derived from responses to the short-form Oral Health Impact Profile (OHIP14) obtained from a UK population sample of 5281 dentate adults. This model was then used to predict OHIP14 response combinations obtained from a sample of 3973 dentate and edentulous adults in Australia.

Findings: The empirically derived population-response model accounted for over 98% of response combinations of Australian dentate adults.

Conclusions: The empirically derived model followed a similar hierarchical pattern to the base model underlying the long-form version of the measure (thereby supporting the validity of the OHIP14 measure) and was strongly predictive of the pattern of responses obtained from Australian adults.

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