TY - GEN
T1 - Influence of environmental humidity on oral dryness among nursing home residents in Japan
AU - Nakajima, Yukie
AU - Ikaga, Toshiharu
AU - Ando, Shintaro
AU - Hoshi, Tanji
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors gratefully acknowledge the contributions of Ryosuke Yamamoto, Akiyoshi Yamamoto, Tatsuki Azuma, Shinpei Okada, Fuminari Omata, Satomi Oamata, Toshiyuki Yajima, Naoko Ikeda, Prof. Naoko Sakurai, Associate Prof. En Ko, and the staff members of nursing homes in our study. This study was supported in part by a MHLW Grant-in-Aid for consignment study of geriatric healthcare business promotion (principal investigator: Prof. Tanji Hoshi), a JSPS KAKNEHI Grant Number JP26249083, JP17J00520, and a MEXT Grant-in-Aid for the Programme for Leading Graduate Schools.
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PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Maintaining good quality of life among elderly residents of nursing homes is becoming more important as their numbers increase with the ageing of society. Dry mouth, or xerostomia, is one condition that must be prevented, as it can lead to various serious diseases. However, older people are susceptible to dry mouth due to reduced lip closing force. In this study, a field survey of the indoor environment of nursing homes and oral dryness among nursing home residents was conducted in winter 2015. Twenty-seven facilities were classified as dry or moist based on measured indoor humidity. Ordered logistic regression analysis showed that the likelihood of dry mouth was significantly lower among patients residing in the moist group compared with the dry group.
AB - Maintaining good quality of life among elderly residents of nursing homes is becoming more important as their numbers increase with the ageing of society. Dry mouth, or xerostomia, is one condition that must be prevented, as it can lead to various serious diseases. However, older people are susceptible to dry mouth due to reduced lip closing force. In this study, a field survey of the indoor environment of nursing homes and oral dryness among nursing home residents was conducted in winter 2015. Twenty-seven facilities were classified as dry or moist based on measured indoor humidity. Ordered logistic regression analysis showed that the likelihood of dry mouth was significantly lower among patients residing in the moist group compared with the dry group.
KW - Dry mouth
KW - Elderly
KW - Field survey
KW - Multivariate analysis
KW - Relative humidity
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T3 - 15th Conference of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate, INDOOR AIR 2018
BT - 15th Conference of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate, INDOOR AIR 2018
PB - International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate
T2 - 15th Conference of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate, INDOOR AIR 2018
Y2 - 22 July 2018 through 27 July 2018
ER -