ArticleQuality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation2020
How peoples' ratings of dental implant treatment change over time?
Article in Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- Impact of response shift on change in patient-reported outcomes: a systematic review.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2026Pooled it
- Response shift results of quantitative research using patient-reported outcome measures: a descriptive systematic review.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2024Pooled it
- Detection of response shift in health-related quality of life studies: a systematic review.Health and quality of life outcomes · 2022Pooled it
- Redefining Success in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery: Bridging the Gap Between Technical Outcomes and Patient Quality of Life.Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand · 2026Review
- The impact of oral diseases on the quality of life of patients attending the oral medicine clinic at a dental specialty centre.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Changes of dental anxiety, aesthetic perception and oral health-related quality of life related to influencing factors of patients' demographics after anterior implant treatment: a prospective study.International journal of implant dentistry · 2023Article
- Listening to the elephant in the room: response-shift effects in clinical trials research.Journal of patient-reported outcomes · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectivesDental implant treatment (DIT) improves peoples' oral health-related quality of life (OHQoL). Assessment of longitudinal changes in OHRQoL may be undermined by response shift (RS). RS is the process by which quality of life changes, independent of health status as a result recalibration, reprioritization or reconceptualization. Thus, this study aimed to describe RS in the OHRQoL and perceived oral health of individuals receiving DIT and to compare the then-test, a self-anchored scale and the classification and regression trees (CRT) approaches for assessing RS.
methodsOHRQoL was assessed in 100 patients receiving DIT using the OHIP-Edent (n = 100) and a self-anchored scale (n = 45) before placement of the final restoration and 3 to 6 months after treatment was completed. The OHIP-Edent was also used as a retrospective assessment at follow-up. CRT examined changes in the OHIP-Edent total score as a dependent variable with global changes in oral health and each OHIP-Edent subscale score as independent variables.
resultsOHRQoL and perceived oral health improved after treatment. The OHIP-Edent score decreased from 36.4 at baseline to 12.7 after treatment. On average, participants recalibrated their internal standard downwards (- 4.0 OHIP-Edent points). CRT detected downwards recalibration in 5% of participants and upwards in 15%. Reprioritization was observed in the social disability and psychological discomfort aspects of OHRQoL.
conclusionsRS affects longitudinal assessments of OHRQoL in DIT, reducing the apparent magnitude of change. The then-test and CRT are valid and complementary methods to assess RS.
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