Catherine Redmond, Philip Hardie, Carmel Davies, Deirdre Cornally, Orla Daly, Cliona O'Sullivan
Increasing competence in wound care: A cross-sectional study to evaluate use of a virtual patient by undergraduate student nurses
Nurse education in practice
many recent studies suggest existence relationship oral health occurrence depressive symptoms aim study assess relationship number lost teeth occurrence depressive symptoms middleaged adults analysis performed data obtained pons project polishnorwegian study conducted witokrzyskie province poland 20102011 research material included crosssectional data 11901 individuals aged 4064 years 7967 women depressive symptoms used outcome variables assessed questionnaire participants provided responses questions concerning occurrence eight symptoms last 12 months answers scored 1 point 0 points participants divided three tercile groups based total scores mild 02 points moderate 35 points severe depressive symptoms 68 points selfreported number lost teeth analysed according following categories 04 58 927 complete lack natural teeth multivariable logistic regression analysis depressive symptoms used relation number lost teeth following covariates included adjusted model age sex place residence education marital status bmi diabetes status stressful life events last year use antidepressants smoking sugar sweet consumption likelihood moderate 1189 95ci 10281376 p 020 severe 1846 95ci 14882290 p 001 depressive symptoms showed strongest relationship total lack natural teeth loss 8 natural teeth also significantly associated 1315 95ci 10751609 p 008 occurrence severe depressive symptoms loss natural teeth positively related occurrence depressive symptoms middleaged adults thus urgent need intensify stomatological prophylaxis education treatment middleaged individuals