Prevalence and factors related to dental caries in psychiatric out-patients at the Prasrimahabhodi Psychiatric Hospital, Ubonratchathani, fiscal year 2006
Abstract:
The purposes of this study were to determine prevalence and factors related to dental caries in psychiatric out-patients at the Prasrimahabhodi Psychiatric Hospital, Ubonratchathani Province, fiscal year 2006. This study was a cross-sectional descriptive study conducted with 600 psychiatric patients during October 2005 and December 2005 by stratified technique and simple random sampling. Chi-square test, Binary logistic regression were used in this study. The results of this study showed that 1) The psychiatric patents in this study were male in the proportion of 53.0 percent, mean age was 37.5+-10.24 years, 45.7 percent of them were un-married, 51.6 percent had primary degree of education, 37.2 percent were agriculturist, 69.4 percent had income lesser than 1,000 baht per month, 70.7 percent lived in Ubonratchathani. 2) The prevalence of dental caries were 35.7 percent (95% CI = 31.8-39.6) and root caries were 28.8 percent (95% CI = 22.4-29.5). The binary logistic regression revealed that there was more chance to have higher dental caries prevalence in psychiatric patients with moderated and high debris index (OR = 2.14, 95%CI = 1.20-3.81). Patients who used antidepressant drugs had high opportunity to develop dental caries (OR = 1.700, 95% CI = 1.14-2.54). Patients with salivary flow rate of lesser than 0.15 millilite per minute had high chance to develop dental caries (OR = 1.61, 95% CI = 1.12-2.32). From the study it recommends that psychiatric patients should correctly take care of oral hygiene. The psychiatrist should be aware of the result of using antidepressant drug to dental caries and use this drugs in proper kind and quantity, including consult the dentist for special dental care for this group of patients