Assessment of Oral Health Related Quality of Life in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Patients in Saudi Arabia

Abstract

Background -Oral Health-related Quality of Life (OHRQoL) has been defined as "the absence of negative impacts of oral conditions on social life and a positive sense of dentofacial self-confidence. Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is a chronic, heterogeneous, neuropsychiatric anxiety disorder, characterized by the presence of either obsessions, compulsive rituals or more commonly both.Materials and Methods -A cross sectional descriptive study was conducted in a Psychiatric clinic in University Medical Centre, Riyadh. The subjects were diagnosed with OCD by the consultant psychiatrist (investigator) through structured clinical interview using Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-5 (DSM-5). The subjects were given a questionnaire in their native language Arabic and consisted of demographic details and two scales, first scale is the OHIP-14 (Oral Health Impact Profile-14) measuring oral health related quality of life and the second YBOCS (Yale Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale) to measure the severity of OCD.Results -the mean OHIP score for female was 1.60 SD 0.95 and for the male it was 1.48 SD 0.77, that 8% of subjects always had trouble pronouncing any words because of problems with their teeth, 36% had painful aching of the mouth some of the times, majority (56%) of the study subjects OCD were diagnosed as mild Conclusion -This study showed the moderate impact of oral health related quality of life among subjects with OCD. There was a significantly positive correlation between OHIP and OCD; also there was a significant correlation between obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors.