Assessment of psychosocial parameters in adolescents seeking orthodontic treatment

• Published in: BMC oral health 2024-10, Vol.24 (1), p.1299-10, Article 1299
• Main Authors: Doughan, Maria B, Khandakji, Mohannad, Khoury, Brigitte, Ghafari, Joseph G
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adolescents; Analysis; Care and treatment; Child; Children; Cross-Sectional Studies; Diagnosis; Esthetics, Dental - psychology; Female; Health aspects; Humans; Likert scale; Male; Malocclusion; Malocclusion - psychology; Malocclusion - therapy; Motivation; Occlusal indices; Oral health-related quality of life; Oral hygiene; Orthodontics; Orthodontics, Corrective - psychology; Patients; Perceptions; Practice; Psychological aspects; Psychosocial variables; Quality of life; Quality of Life - psychology; Questionnaires; Self Concept; Self esteem; Self image; Self-perceived esthetics; Self-perception; Social aspects; Surveys and Questionnaires; Teenagers; Variance analysis
• ISSN: 1472-6831; 1472-6831
• DOI: 10.1186/s12903-024-04875-6

The aim of this study was to investigate the psychosocial impact of malocclusion and the motivation for seeking orthodontic treatment among adolescents. A cross-sectional study included 102 adolescents (ages 11-18) whose malocclusion was rated using 3 occlusal indices: IOTN, DAI, and PAR. The participants answered three structured questionnaires selected to measure Oral Health Related Quality of Life (OHRQoL) through the short form of the Child Oral Health Impact Profile (COHIP), the patient's perceived impact related to orthodontics through the Psychosocial Impact of Dental Aesthetics Questionnaire (PIDAQ), and self-esteem through the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES). Independent two-tailed t-tests, one-way mixed analysis of variance (ANOVA), and Spearman's correlations were used to test various associations. Patients with higher malocclusion scores displayed increased psychosocial impact with weak to moderate correlations (0.2