Impact of Sense of Coherence on Oral Health Behaviors: A Systematic Review

Abstract

ObjectivesThe aim of this review was to critically analyze the empirical evidence on the association between Sense of Coherence (SOC) and oral health behaviors through a systematic approach.MethodsA systematic search up to April 2015 was carried out using the following electronic bibliographic databases: PubMed, Ovid MEDLINE; ISI Web of Science; and Ovid PsychInfo. Studies were included if they evaluated the relationship between SOC and oral health behaviors including tooth cleaning, fluoride usage, dietary habits, dental attendance, and smoking. We excluded studies that only assessed the relationship between oral health status and SOC without evaluating oral health behaviors. The New Castle Ottawa (NOS) quality assessment checklist was employed to evaluate the methodological quality of included studies.ResultsThirty-nine potential papers met the preliminary selection criteria and following a full-text review, 9 papers were finally selected for this systematic review. Results provided by the included studies indicated different levels of association between SOC and oral health behaviors. The most frequent behaviors investigated were tooth brushing and dental attendance pattern. The impact of SOC on performing positive oral health behaviors, to some extent, was related to demographic and socio-economic factors. In addition, mothers’ SOC influenced children’s oral health practices.ConclusionsA more favorable oral health behavior was observed among those with a stronger SOC suggesting that the SOC can be a determinant of oral health-related behaviors including tooth brushing frequency, daily smoking, and dental attendance.

Excessive Game Playing Is Associated with Poor Toothbrushing Behavior among Athletic Children: A Cross-Sectional Study in Miyagi, Japan

“…According to a salutogenic concept proposed by Antonovsky, sense of coherence (SOC) has recently been established to estimate a person's healthpromoting state (Antonovsky 1980). SOC strongly reflects oral health behaviors, including toothbrushing frequency (Savolainen et al 2009;Elyasi et al 2015). A poor SOC results in psychological problems in early childhood, and is also a powerful predictor for future chronic health problems such as morbid obesity and psychiatric disorders (Raty et al 2005;Honkinen et al 2009).…”

“…Participants chose from the following five response options: "never," "less than once," "1 time per day," "twice per day," and "three or more times per day." Since twice a day is considered the most suitable frequency for children (Murtomaa 1979;Macgregor et al 1996;Kobayashi et al 2012;Elyasi et al 2015;McKay et al 2016), participants were categorized into two groups: higher toothbrushing frequency group (two or more times per day), and lower brushing frequency group (less than twice per day). In addition to toothbrushing frequency, the presence of dental caries was collected via a self-report questionnaire with the following question: "Do you have any dental caries?"…”

“…Therefore, to establish healthy oral conditions during childhood, it is important to consider other behaviors influencing the acquisition of appropriate toothbrushing habits. Previous studies reported that the effective frequency of toothbrushing for preventing dental caries was more than twice a day, which is generally performed prior to going out in the morning and before bedtime at night (Murtomaa 1979;Macgregor et al 1996;Kobayashi et al 2012;Elyasi et al 2015;McKay et al 2016). Excessive TV viewing, one of the major screen-time behaviors, is associated with a higher frequency of treatment for dental caries (Zeng et al 2014).…”

Correlates of affiliate stigma among family caregivers of people with mental illness: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

“…Disagreement between the reviewers was discussed with M.L. until consensus was achieved (Elyasi et al., ; Hermont et al., ).…”

The Association between Sense of Coherence and Dental Caries in Low Social Status Schoolchildren

“…In elderly and adult populations, SOC was identified as a psychosocial determinant of oral health-related quality of life [Savolainen et al, 2005a;Boman et al, 2012;Machado et al, 2017], oral health-related behaviors, attitudes towards oral health, knowledge of dental caries [Savolainen et al, 2005b;Bernabé et al, 2009;Lindmark et al, 2011;Elyasi et al, 2015], and dental clinical status [Bernabé et al, 2010[Bernabé et al, , 2012Gupta et al, 2015;Davoglio et al, 2016;Possebon et al, 2017]. Other studies have shown a positive prospective relationship between strong SOC and better oral health-related quality of life among adolescents [Baker et al, 2010;Pakpour et al, 2018].…”