TY - JOUR
T1 - Oral health assessment of older adults living in long-term care facilities by non-dental professionals
T2 - A systematic review protocol of instruments
AU - Rodrigues, Lorrany Gabriela
AU - Vettore, Mario Vianna
AU - Figueiredo, Isadora Lemos
AU - Sampaio, Aline Araújo
AU - Ferreira, Raquel Conceição
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© BMJ Publishing Group Limited 2021.
PY - 2021/8/23
Y1 - 2021/8/23
N2 - Introduction Regular oral health assessment among older adults living in long-term care facilities (LTCF) can improve their oral health. Different instruments have been developed and used to evaluate the oral health of institutionalised older people by non-dental professionals. These instruments must demonstrate adequate measurement properties. This systematic review aims to examine the studies describing the instruments employed to assess the oral health of older adults living in LTCF by non-dental professionals. The study will also evaluate the measurement properties of such instruments using the checklist proposed by the Consensus-based Standards to select health Measurement Instruments (COSMIN). Methods and analysis Studies describing the development of instruments for assessing oral health of institutionalised older adults by non-dental professionals will be included. Studies assessing at least one measurement property (validity, reliability or responsiveness) will be also considered. Electronic searches will be conducted on MEDLINE (PubMed, Ovid), Embase, Web of Science, Scopus and LILACS databases. Two independent reviewers will select the studies and will extract data concerning the characteristics of the research and the instrument. The measurement properties will be evaluated using the COSMIN checklist. The Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluation approach will be used to grade the quality (or certainty) of evidence and strength of recommendations. Ethics and dissemination No ethical approval is required. The results will be submitted for publication to a peer-review journal and presented at relevant conferences. PROSPERO registration number CRD42020191479.
AB - Introduction Regular oral health assessment among older adults living in long-term care facilities (LTCF) can improve their oral health. Different instruments have been developed and used to evaluate the oral health of institutionalised older people by non-dental professionals. These instruments must demonstrate adequate measurement properties. This systematic review aims to examine the studies describing the instruments employed to assess the oral health of older adults living in LTCF by non-dental professionals. The study will also evaluate the measurement properties of such instruments using the checklist proposed by the Consensus-based Standards to select health Measurement Instruments (COSMIN). Methods and analysis Studies describing the development of instruments for assessing oral health of institutionalised older adults by non-dental professionals will be included. Studies assessing at least one measurement property (validity, reliability or responsiveness) will be also considered. Electronic searches will be conducted on MEDLINE (PubMed, Ovid), Embase, Web of Science, Scopus and LILACS databases. Two independent reviewers will select the studies and will extract data concerning the characteristics of the research and the instrument. The measurement properties will be evaluated using the COSMIN checklist. The Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluation approach will be used to grade the quality (or certainty) of evidence and strength of recommendations. Ethics and dissemination No ethical approval is required. The results will be submitted for publication to a peer-review journal and presented at relevant conferences. PROSPERO registration number CRD42020191479.
KW - epidemiology
KW - geriatric medicine
KW - oral medicine
KW - social medicine
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85113829579&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-050289
DO - 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-050289
M3 - Review
C2 - 34426468
AN - SCOPUS:85113829579
SN - 2044-6055
VL - 11
JO - BMJ Open
JF - BMJ Open
IS - 8
M1 - e050289
ER -