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. 2024 May 23:12:1385443.
doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1385443. eCollection 2024.

Relationship between oral health literacy and oral health-related quality of life in patients with bladder cancer

Fatemeh Babadi  1 , Ahmad Ahmadi  2 , Mohsen Sarkarian  3 , Maria Cheraghi  4
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Relationship between oral health literacy and oral health-related quality of life in patients with bladder cancer

Fatemeh Babadi et al. Front Public Health. .

Abstract

Introduction: Bladder cancer is one of the most important diseases that threatens oral and dental health due to its nature and side effects of chemotherapy. Therefore, the present study was conducted to investigate the relationship between oral health literacy and oral health-related quality of life in patients with bladder cancer.

Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on patients with bladder cancer in Ahvaz, 2023. Subjects were selected randomly from the patients those were registered in Cancer Registry Center in Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical sciences and invited to Golestan Hospital for data collection through clinical evaluation, the Oral Health Literacy Adult Questionnaire (OHL-AQ), and the Oral Health Impact Profile-14 (OHIP-14PER) questionnaire. The data were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient, independent t-test, and analysis of variance.

Results: The number of participants was 194. The mean oral health literacy in patients with bladder cancer was 9.74 ± 2.39, indicating insufficient oral health literacy. A significant association was observed between OHL-AQ and DMFT index, but no significant association was found between OHIP-14PER and DMFT index. Furthermore, a significant correlation was found between OHL-AQ and OHIP-14PER (r = -0.68) in patients with bladder cancer.

Conclusion: Based on the findings of the present study, all dimensions of oral health literacy have correlation with the oral health-related quality of life in patients with bladder cancer. Therefore, adopting oral health behaviors and increasing oral health literacy can be the best way to improve the oral health-related quality of life to among patients with bladder cancer.

Keywords: DMFT; Health Literacy; Oral; bladder cancer; quality of life.

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The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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The mean score of oral health literacy and its dimensions among bladder cancer patients. The mean score of oral health literacy was 9.74 ± 2.39 which indicates insufficient oral health literacy levels. Scores between 0 and 9 indicate insufficient oral health literacy level.
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