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Song, Lim, and Lee: Relationship between work loss due to oral diseases and self-perceived oral health status among workers

Abstract

Objectives

The purpose of this study was to investigate the work loss caused by oral diseases of workers and their subjective self-perceived oral health status. The study focused on the relationship between work loss due to oral diseases and self-perceived oral health status.

Methods

A cross-sectional survey was conducted. The sample consisted of 550 workers who resided in Ansan City and Gwacheon City. The data were collected from a self-reported questionnaire survey.

Results

The percentage of workers that were absent from the workplace due to oral diseases in the past year was 4.8%, and the average of days of absence from the workplace per worker was 0.1 day. Most of the workers (41.1%) answered “average” for the self-perceived oral health status. However, there were more workers that answered “not healthy” than workers that answered “healthy” for the self-perceived oral health status. The percentage of workers that felt the need for dental treatment because of the presence of oral diseases was 59.5%. There was a statistically significant relationship between the work loss due to oral diseases and the subjective self-perceived oral health status.

Conclusions

Work loss due to oral diseases and subjective self-perceived oral health status should be periodically assessed for use as basic data for the development of oral health-promotion policies for workers.

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Table 1.
Work loss due to oral diseases unit: %
Classifications Absence experience Interference with tasks Experience (Recent 1 year)
Absence Early leave Absence or Early leave
Total 11.8 24.5 4.8 7.5 10.0
Gender Male 13.0 26.5* 5.5 8.3 11.2
Female 7.8 14.9 2.2 4.3 5.4
Age (years) 18-24 13.8* 14.8 7.1 7.4 10.7
25-29 4.3 20.0 4.8 0.0 4.8
30-34 7.6 19.0 4.2 8.2 9.6
35-44 12.4 26.2 3.4 8.0 10.6
45-54 18.2 33.7 8.1 11.5 15.0
≥55 23.5 8.3 6.3 6.3 6.3
Youth (18-39) 7.4* 19.6* 3.9 5.5 6.1
Prime of life (40-64) 18.2 30.5 7.0 10.2 15.1
Marital status Married 13.7* 25.6 4.4 8.4 10.3
Unmarried 7.4 22.1 6.0 5.3 9.7
Type of business Manufacturing business 12.6 27.9* 5.5 9.2* 13.2*
Non-manufacturing business 7.6 17.3 2.9 2.8 3.5
Type of work Production work 11.6 27.0* 5.0 9.1 12.3
Office work 9.2 14.6 1.2 3.7 4.9
Employment status Regular worker 13.1 26.5 6.7 10.3* 13.1
Irregular Worker 12.8 22.9 2.3 0.0 2.3
Education ≤Middle school 8.9* 23.3 2.6 7.3 5.1
High school 14.0 27.5 5.9 8.8 9.0
≥University 4.3 15.4 2.4 3.5 5.9
Working career (years) ≤5 8.0 14.9* 3.3 6.3 7.1
6-15 12.7 31.3 5.0 7.7 8.6
≥16 18.4 29.7 5.9 13.0 11.2

*P<0.05 by χ

2 -test.

Table 2.
Number of work loss days (1 year) unit: day
Classifications Absence Early leave Absence or Early leave
Total 0.10 0.23 0.33
Gender Male 0.13* 0.27* 0.39*
Female 0.02 0.07 0.09
Age (years) 18-24 0.07 0.11 0.18
25-29 0.06 0.00 0.06
30-34 0.04 0.12 0.16
35-44 0.12 0.26 0.38
45-54 0.19 0.40 0.58
≥55 0.13 0.63 0.75
Youth (18-39) 0.05* 0.09* 0.11*
Prime of life (40-64) 0.19 0.41 0.46
Marital status Married 0.10 0.28* 0.37
Unmarried 0.12 0.11 0.23
Type of work Production work 0.08* 0.21* 0.28*
Office work 0.01 0.04 0.05
Employment status Regular worker 0.16* 0.37* 0.52*
Irregular Worker 0.02 0.00 0.02
Working career (years) ≤5 0.06 0.09* 0.12*
6-15 0.10 0.29 0.35
≥16 0.15 0.57 0.65

*P<0.05 by ANOVA or t-test.

Table 3.
Perceived oral health status
Items Rate of experience or perception (%)
Experience of gingival bleeding 36.8
Experience of tooth mobility due to periodontal disease 16.2
Experience of tooth hypersensitivity 53.3
Experience of temporomandibular joint disorders 11.7
Oral and maxillofacial injury on work 3.1
Oral and maxillofacial injury on daily life 2.0
Self-awareness about oral diseases 45.8
Perception about necessity for treatment of oral diseases 59.5
Perception for dental caries 47.6
Experience for scaling 67.4
Table 4.
Relationship between subjective oral health status, work loss and restriction of activities* unit: %
Absence experience Interference with tasks Absence (1 year) Early leave (1 year) Absence or early leave (1 year) Restriction of activities
Healthy 9.5 13.6 2.1 5.6 5.0 44.6
Normal 8.8 15.8 2.9 5.7 6.3 64.6
Not healthy 17.8 46.3 9.5 11.3 12.3 93.1
Cramer's V 0.124 0.335 0.154 0.099 0.115 0.391
P 0.015 <0.001 0.003 0.086 0.038 <0.001

*Chi-Square Independence Test.

Table 5.
Relationship between perceived oral health status and work loss
Items Absence from work
Absence from work past 1 year
Early leave from work past 1 year
Absence or early leave from work past 1 year
Interference with tasks
Rate (%) Phi coefficient Rate (%) Phi coefficient Rate (%) Phi coefficient Rate (%) Phi coefficient Rate (%) Phi coefficient
Experience of gingival bleeding 16.3 0.107* 8.0 0.116* 8.4 0.057 10.2 0.068 35.4 0.199**
Tooth mobility due to 25.8 0.191** 16.0 0.232** 13.4 0.099* 18.8 0.178** 52.1 0.290**
periodontal disease
Tooth hypersensitivity 16.4 0.153** 7.7 0.140** 10.5 0.121** 11.2 0.130** 34.7 0.246**
Temporomandibular joint disorders 17.7 0.066 12.3 0.126** 14.5 0.089* 16.1 0.109* 40.9 0.129**
Oral and maxillofacial 23.5 0.065 12.5 0.119** 7.5 0.035 18.8 0.074 50.0 0.109*
injury on work
Oral and maxillofacial 18.2 0.028 11.1 0.040 7.5 0.014 11.1 0.017 50.0 0.082
injury on daily life
Self-awareness about 17.0 0.149** 7.9 0.133** 12.0 0.158** 11.9 0.140** 37.1 0.278**
oral diseases
Perception about necessity for treatment of oral diseases 14.7 0.088* 5.6 0.040 8.7 0.045 9.3 0.055 33.2 0.202**
Perception for dental 15.6 0.114** 7.9 0.140** 7.5 0.088* 11.7 0.139** 34.6 0.226**
caries
Experience for scaling 11.9 0.003 5.3 0.034 9.3 0.100* 8.9 0.057 25.9 0.047

Chi-Square Independence Test, *P<0.05, **P<0.01.

Table 6.
Relationship between subjective oral health status and restriction of activities*
Items Restricted activity (rate of experience) Phi coefficient P
Experience of gingival bleeding 81.7% 0.238 <0.001
Tooth mobility due to periodontal disease 93.1% 0.254 <0.001
Tooth hypersensitivity 81.6% 0.317 <0.001
Temporomandibular joint disorders 79.5% 0.091 0.067
Oral and maxillofacial injury on work 100.0% 0.131 0.008
Oral and maxillofacial injury on daily life 87.5% 0.052 0.295
Self-awareness about oral diseases 86.5% 0.369 <0.001
Perception about necessity for treatment of oral diseases 84.0% 0.360 <0.001
Perception for dental caries 78.4% 0.224 <0.001
Experience for scaling 71.8% 0.141 0.004

*Chi-Square Independence Test.

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