The effectiveness of a desensitization technique for mitigating oral and facial tactile hypersensitivity in institutionalized older persons: A randomized controlled trial

• Những tác giả chính: Maki Shirobe (Tác giả), Rena Hidaka (Tác giả), Hirohiko Hirano (Tác giả), Yuki Ohara (Tác giả), Keiko Endo (Tác giả), Yutaka Watanabe (Tác giả), Chiyoko Hakuta (Tác giả)
• Định dạng: Sách
• Được phát hành: Elsevier, 2021-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Những chủ đề: article
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Background/purpose: Oral health care provision in long-term care settings is often limited by specific behaviors exhibited by residents, which may be interpreted as a refusal of care. Such behaviors can be attributed to oral tactile hypersensitivity (TH), which is characterized by aberrations in the...