Beyond the Mouth: Oral Health-Related Quality of Life and Emotional Loneliness in Later Life and Their Associations With Sleep Quality and Dream Recall
Christos Tsironis, Elena Dragioti, Stefanos Mantzoukas, Agni Nakou, Eleni Bartzou, Nektaria Zagorianakou, Fotios Tatsis, Athina Paschou, Mary Gouva · 2026
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Christos Tsironis and co-authors examine in 2026 how oral health shapes quality of life in later years and how that experience ties to loneliness, sleep, and dream recall. Their cross-sectional study enrolled 609 community-dwelling adults aged 60 and older in Greece. Standard scales measured oral health-related quality of life, plus emotional loneliness, while brief self-report items covered sleep quality, sleep sufficiency, napping, and how often dreams were remembered.
Better oral quality of life went with clearly lower emotional loneliness, the strongest link in the analysis, and with modestly better sleep appraisals and less daytime napping. Lonelier participants reported poorer sleep yet no difference in dream recall. A small link between oral quality of life and dream recall appeared in adjusted models. The authors themselves flag it as exploratory and possibly a chance finding, urging caution given the single unvalidated dream question and many comparisons.
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| CREATOR | Christos Tsironis, Elena Dragioti, Stefanos Mantzoukas, Agni Nakou, Eleni Bartzou, Nektaria Zagorianakou, Fotios Tatsis, Athina Paschou, Mary Gouva |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 50293 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |