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Evidence-based suggestions to improve the methodological issues in reporting of prevalence studies on gingival recession

Gingival recession (GR) is considered a public health problem which is highly prevalent across different populations. Accuracy of psychometric properties of prevalence estimates of GR reported in epidemiological studies is important to facilitate setting public health goals, planning of public healt...

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Autores principales: Yadav, Vikender Singh, Monga, Nitika, Jose, Nisha K., Priya, Harsh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10538512/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37781332
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jisp.jisp_400_22
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Monga, Nitika
Jose, Nisha K.
Priya, Harsh
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description Gingival recession (GR) is considered a public health problem which is highly prevalent across different populations. Accuracy of psychometric properties of prevalence estimates of GR reported in epidemiological studies is important to facilitate setting public health goals, planning of public health programs, implementation of best practices and thereby developing public health policy. However, the reported prevalence estimates are influenced by the methodological variations among different studies, as observed in our recently published systematic review and meta-analysis on the global prevalence of GR. It substantially limits the comparability between studies and inferences about the true global variation in the prevalence of GR are difficult to establish. To address these issues, this commentary suggests to follow the standardized principles related to study design, clinical examination protocol, and characteristics of study subjects in future epidemiological studies on prevalence estimates of GR. Furthermore, the inclusion of additional domains in the reporting data is suggested for a deeper insight into the patterns of GR in different populations. Our suggestions are derived from a pragmatic approach and their consistent implementation would improve the reporting quality and achieve uniformity in future studies, thus benefitting the research in this area.
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spelling pubmed-105385122023-09-29 Evidence-based suggestions to improve the methodological issues in reporting of prevalence studies on gingival recession Yadav, Vikender Singh Monga, Nitika Jose, Nisha K. Priya, Harsh J Indian Soc Periodontol Review Article Gingival recession (GR) is considered a public health problem which is highly prevalent across different populations. Accuracy of psychometric properties of prevalence estimates of GR reported in epidemiological studies is important to facilitate setting public health goals, planning of public health programs, implementation of best practices and thereby developing public health policy. However, the reported prevalence estimates are influenced by the methodological variations among different studies, as observed in our recently published systematic review and meta-analysis on the global prevalence of GR. It substantially limits the comparability between studies and inferences about the true global variation in the prevalence of GR are difficult to establish. To address these issues, this commentary suggests to follow the standardized principles related to study design, clinical examination protocol, and characteristics of study subjects in future epidemiological studies on prevalence estimates of GR. Furthermore, the inclusion of additional domains in the reporting data is suggested for a deeper insight into the patterns of GR in different populations. Our suggestions are derived from a pragmatic approach and their consistent implementation would improve the reporting quality and achieve uniformity in future studies, thus benefitting the research in this area. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2023 2023-09-01 /pmc/articles/PMC10538512/ /pubmed/37781332 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jisp.jisp_400_22 Text en Copyright: © 2023 Indian Society of Periodontology https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Evidence-based suggestions to improve the methodological issues in reporting of prevalence studies on gingival recession
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title_fullStr Evidence-based suggestions to improve the methodological issues in reporting of prevalence studies on gingival recession
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title_short Evidence-based suggestions to improve the methodological issues in reporting of prevalence studies on gingival recession
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10538512/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37781332
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jisp.jisp_400_22
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