These performances are: eating, speaking, cleaning mouth, sleeping, emotional status, smiling, studying, and social contact (Table 1).
The OIDP evaluates difficulty performing eight activities of daily life due to dental problems affecting eating, speaking, cleaning the mouth, sleeping, smiling, studying, emotions, and maintaining social contact.
The OIDP index, which has also been validated on British populations [ 21, 24], assesses serious oral impacts on 8 daily performances namely, eating, speaking, cleaning mouth, relaxing, smiling, studying, emotion and social contact.
The OIDP consists of nine items that cover the physical, psychological, and social dimensions of daily living: eating, smiling, studying, speaking, playing sports, mouth cleaning, sleeping, emotion, and social contact.
The Baby Smiles study advisory team consisted of a collaborative of county public health departments, community task forces, and dental care organizations that worked with the investigators to develop and conduct the study.
Data came from the longitudinal SMILE study (i.e. Study on Medical Information and Lifestyles Eindhoven), which started in November 2002 as a joint project of Maastricht University and the Eindhoven Corporation of Primary Health Care Centres.
The Baby Smiles study was designed to increase low-income pregnant women's utilization of dental care, increase young children's dental care utilization, and improve home oral health care practices.
The Sydney Multisite Intervention of LaughterBosses and ElderClowns (SMILE) study is a cluster randomised controlled trial evaluating the effect of humour therapy on depression, agitation, behavioural disturbances, social engagement and quality-of-life in nursing home residents.
Using cross-sectional and longitudinal data from the SMILE study, we set out to examine, firstly, the links between the possession of both basic and luxury goods and both mental and physical dysfunction in older Dutch men and women, and, secondly, the extent to which these links are independent of more traditional socioeconomic indicators, such as education and income.
And that means that when I do have some attention I can get through it almost by role playing a little.' He half-smiles, studying his mobile phone.
