%0 Journal Article
%A Sekundo, Caroline
%A Stock, Christian
%A Jürges, Hendrik
%A Listl, Stefan
%T Patients' self-reported measures of oral health-A validation study on basis of oral health questions used in a large multi-country survey for populations aged 50.
%J Gerodontology
%V 36
%N 2
%@ 0734-0664
%C Oxford [u.a.]
%I Wiley-Blackwell
%M DKFZ-2019-01072
%P 171-179
%D 2019
%X To assess the validity of patient self-reported oral health measures as used in a large multi-country survey for populations aged 50+.Information on people's oral health status is important for assessing oral health needs within populations. However, clinical examination is not always possible. Patient self-reported measures may provide an alternative when time and other resources are scarce.Using oral health items from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), self-reported measures were collected from 186 patients receiving treatment at Heidelberg University Hospital. Self-reports were compared with subsequent clinical examinations. Analyses were conducted for patients of all age groups and separately for patients aged 50+ (analogous to the SHARE study population). Diagnostic accuracy, agreement and correlation of patient-reported information were examined using descriptive statistics and Bland-Altman plots.Patient-reported presence or absence of a full tooth count was closely related to clinical measurement, both for all age groups (sensitivity: 93
%F PUB:(DE-HGF)16
%9 Journal Article
%$ pmid:30821850
%R 10.1111/ger.12398
%U https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/143484