Older Adults' Experiences of Oral Rehabilitation - a Qualitative Interview Study

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT06783426

Enrollment

Registered

2025-01-20

Start date

2024-10-09

Completion date

2025-05-19

Last updated

2026-04-06

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Conditions

Oral Health

Keywords

Qualitative study, Interview study, Quality of Life, Patient experience, oral rehabilitation

Brief summary

The aim of this study is to gain knowledge and understanding about older adults' experiences of comprehensive oral prosthetic rehabilitation and their life situation before, during and after the treatment. This is both to deepen the knowledge gained in an ongoing interventional study, but also to increase the understanding of how to best meet older adults' needs when planning and performing oral rehabilitation in any dental surgery.

Detailed description

This qualitative study will be based on individual, semi-structured interviews using an Interview Guide focusing on the participants´ perceptions, experiences, and reflections. The interviews will then be analyzed with a descriptive content analysis method according to Graneheim and Lundman.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

COHORT

Time perspective

RETROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

65 Years to 85 Years

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* Completed prosthetic treatment in the original study 3-13 months ago * Age 65-80 years at start of the original study * Masticatory dysfunction (Eichner's index B3-B4 or C1-C4) for original study * Mini-Mental-State-Examination-test (MMSE) score \>26 for original study

Exclusion criteria

for the original study: * Neuropsychological disease * Severely impaired hearing or vision * Poor knowledge of the Swedish language * Having had a stroke ≤ 6 months before inclusion No additional

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
The participants' perceived experiences	3-13 months after completing the prosthetic treatment.	Since this is a qualitative study, we have no traditional outcome measures. Instead, completing the interview and sharing their perceived experiences during the treatment procedure , how their oral health may have affected their life situation, their quality of life and well-being before, during and after the treatment may serve as our primary outcome measure.

Countries

Sweden

Contacts

PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATORCharlotta Elleby, PhD, DDS

Folktandvården Stockholm

Outcome results