Orofacial Pain during Mastication in People with Dementia: Reliability Testing of the Orofacial Pain Scale for Non-Verbal Individuals

Table 1

Descriptive and demographic data of subjects ().

	Mean	SD		Percentage
Age	83.3	7.1
Male	81.1	7.6
Female	84.1	6.7
CPS score	4.4	1.3
Comorbidity
Endocrine			46	30.1
Vision impairment			25	16.3
Heart/cardiovascular disease			86	56.2
Psychiatric/mood			22	14.4
Lung disease			22	14.4
Diseases of musculoskeletal system			42	27.5
Neurological diseases			38	24.8
Infection in the last 7 days			6	3.9
Other			21	13.7

SD: standard deviation.
CPS: Cognitive Performance Scale.
a = diabetes mellitus, hypothyroidism, and/or hyperthyroidism.
b = cataract, diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, and/or macular degeneration.
c = arteriosclerotic disease, heart rhythm disorders, heart failure, hypertension, hypotension, peripheral vascular disease, and other.
d = anxiety disorder, depression, manic depression, and schizophrenia.
e = asthma, emphysema/COPD.
f = rheumatic diseases, hip fracture, amputation, osteoporosis, and pathologic bone fracture.
g = aphasia, cerebral palsy, stroke, hemiplegia/hemiparesis, paraplegia, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson disease, seizures, transient ischemic attack, traumatic brain injury, and quadriplegia.
h = pneumonia, respiratory tract infection, and urinary tract infection.
i = allergies, anemia, cancer, and renal failure.