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Table 1 Percentage of subjects responding sometimes, fairly often, very often or all the time to each GOHAI and OHIP-14 item

From: Quality of life measured by OHIP-14 and GOHAI in elderly people from Bialystok, north-east Poland

GOHAI

%

OHIP-14

%

Functional limitation

91.6

 

73

Trouble biting/chewing food

85.4

Trouble pronouncing words

65.7

Uncomfortable to swallow

66.3

Sense of taste worse

67.4

Prevented from speaking

69.7

  

Pain and discomfort

93.3

 

77

Discomfort when eating

75.8

Painful aching in mouth

56.2

Use medication to relieve pain

62.4

Uncomfortable to eat foods

73.0

Teeth, gums, sensitive to hot/cold

75.3

  

Psychological impacts

90.4

 

78.7

Unhappy with appearance

75.3

Been self-conscious

68.5

Worried or concerned

82.6

Felt tense

66.3

Nervous or self-conscious

73.0

Difficult to relax

62.9

Uncomfortable eating in front of people

70.2

Been embarrassed

65.2

  

Felt life is less satisfying

68.5

Behavioral impacts

80.3

 

72.5

Limit kinds or amounts of food

77.0

Diet has been unsatisfactory

62.9

Limit contact with others

55.1

Had to interrupt meals

51.1

  

Been irritable with others

61.2

Difficulty doing usual jobs

53.9

  

Totally unable to function

51.1