Validation of the Turkish version of the Liverpool Oral Rehabilitation Questionnaire version 3 (LORQv3) in prosthetically rehabilitated patients with head and neck cancer

Table 1 Socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of study participants and comparisons among the three groups

	Maxillary sinus cancer rehabilitated with maxillary obturator following surgery alone (A)	Maxillary sinus cancer rehabilitated with maxillary obturator following surgery plus radiotherapy with/without chemotherapy (B)	Nasopharyngeal cancer rehabilitated with conventional prosthesis following radiotherapy with/without chemotherapy (C)	P-value
	n = 15	n = 23	n = 8
Gender ^a (n, %)
Male	11 (73.3)	12 (52.2)	6 (75)	0.311
Female	4 (26.7)	11 (47.8)	2 (25)	0.311
Marital status ^a (n, %)
Single, divorced, or widowed	3 (20)	4 (17.4)	1 (12.5)	0.903
Married	12 (80)	19 (82.6)	7 (87.5)
Employment Status ^a (n, %)
Employed full-time/part-time	5 (33.3)	9 (39.1)	1 (12.5)	0.383
Unemployed	10 (66.7)	14 (60.9)	7 (87.5)
Age ^b (years), Mean (SD)	57.53 (15.04)	49.21 (11.06)	52.76 (12.89)	0.145
Monthly Family Income ^c , TRY, Mean (SD)	1693 (1348.39)	1583.91 (1116.93)	923.75 (281.21)	0.226
Educational level ^a (n, %)
≤ 8 years of schooling	9 (60)	14 (60.9)	5 (62.5)	0.993
> 8 years of schooling	6 (40)	9 (39.1)	3 (37.5)
Type of surgery ^a
Transoral	13 (86.7)	18 (78.3)	-	0.514
Transfacial	2 (13.3)	5 (21.7)		0.514
Defect size ^a
Class ≤2 b	8 (53.3)	9 (39.1)	-	0.389
Class >2 b	7 (46.7)	14 (60.9)

SD, standard deviation; TRY, Turkish Lira; ^aStatistical evaluation by the chi-square test; ^bStatistical evaluation by the one-way ANOVA test; ^cStatistical evaluation by the Kruskal-Wallis test.

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