The time difference between dental calculator calculation and manual calculation in Geriatric Oral Health Assessment Index

Perbedaan waktu antara perhitungan menggunakan kalkulator gigi dan perhitungan manual pada Geriatric Oral Health Assessment Index

Abstract

Conventionally, manual measurement of the Geriatric Oral Health Assessment Index (GOHAI) is time-consuming and prone to error. To address this chal-lenge, a dental calculator application was developed as a digital technology-based solution to speed up GOHAI calculations. This study determined the dura-tion of manual GOHAI measurement compared to the use of a digital dental calculator application. This was a quasi-experimental study with a posttest-only group design. Convenience sampling was used, resulting in a total of 70 samples from the population of students at the Faculty of Dentistry, Baiturrah-mah University, who met the inclusion and exclusion criteria. The data collection process consisted of manual measurements taken in the first week and di-gital measurements taken in the third week. It was found that the average GOHAI measurement time using the digital dental calculator application (36.28 se-conds) was faster than using paper and pen (88.78 seconds) with a p-value of 0.000 (p<0.05), indicating a significant difference. The average difference in GOHAI measurement time between the manual and digital methods was 52.5 seconds. It was concluded that there was a difference in time between the use of a digital dental calculator and a manual application for GOHAI measurement.