Mothers’ oral health literacy and children’s oral health status in Pikine, Senegal: A pilot study

Dieng, Serigne Ibra Mbacké; Cissé, Daouda; Azogui-Lévy, Sylvie

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“…Parental employment status was found to be associated with dental caries status. These findings confirm previous studies that have shown sociodemographic divergence in different parts of the world [ 16 , 26 , 29 , 68 , 69 ]. Although from this cross-sectional study design it was hard to show causality between factors that contribute to the oral health status of preschool children, the analysis of multivariate models leads us to reach two conclusions.…”

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“…OHL has become an important factor of concern in regard to oral health [ 23 , 24 , 25 ]. The literature has shown high caries risk among children in association with low parental OHL [ 1 , 6 , 26 , 27 , 28 ]. A study revealed that parents with higher OHL showed a negative correlation with their children’s caries experience, with the authors concluding that parents with adequate OHL play an important role in prevention and management of children’s caries experience [ 29 ].…”

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“…This offers a framework for designing and implementing oral health programs which enhance the OHL, skills, and attitude of parents. It also provides ideas to enhance interactions between health care providers and parents, which could improve the oral health status among children [ 26 ].…”

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Assessment of Parents’ Oral Health Literacy and Its Association with Caries Experience of Their Preschool Children

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(1) Purpose: To assess the oral health literacy (OHL) of parents and its association with the caries experience of their preschool children attending the Hospital University Sains Malaysia (HUSM), Kota Bharu, Kelantan, Malaysia. (2) Materials and Methods: This is a descriptive cross-sectional study involving a systematic random sampling method, using a sample of 230 parent/preschool child dyads. Among 230 parents, 24 were males and 206 were females (mean age 31.43 ± 5.82); among 230 children, 92 were boys and 138 were girls (mean age 4.82 ± 1.04) attending the pedodontics clinic, HUSM, who participated and met the inclusion criteria. A structured, self-administered oral health literacy questionnaire including sociodemographic factors was used in this study. A child’s oral examination was performed to check the dmft (decayed, missing, filled teeth) status. Statistical analysis was done using descriptive and Spearman’s correlation analysis and multivariate regression analysis. (3) Results: The mean dmft score of children in relation to the OHL level of parents showed a significant difference (p < 0.00). The mean dmft score of children in relation to the OHL level of parents showed the following relationships: Inadequate (7.49 ± 4.10) followed by marginal (3.28 ± 2.67) and then adequate (0.55 ± 1.55). The incidence of caries amongst children in relation to parental employment was more associated with unemployed parents (6.11 ± 4.43) than with employed parents (2.79 ± 3.65). The caries experience amongst children in relation to education of their parents revealed a significant difference (p < 0.001), and the mean dmft score was high amongst preschool children with primary school qualified parents (10.7 ± 4.10) followed by high school (7.04 ± 3.68), vocational (5.81 ± 3.57), diploma (2.61 ± 2.81), and university (1.29 ± 2.27), respectively. The results revealed a valid significant difference (negative correlation, rs = −0.753 **) between the OHL of parents with the dmft score of their preschool children. The age and gender of parents was not significantly associated with OHL, whereas ethnicity (positive correlation, rs = 0.283 **), education (positive correlation, rs = 0.865 **), and employment (negative correlation, rs = −0.490 **) were found to be significant. Conclusion: We conclude that there is a significant association between the OHL of parents with the dmft score of their preschool children. The logistic regression showed that after adjustment for sociodemographic factors, parents’ gender (OR = 0.067, 95% CI: 0.012–0.360), parents’ employment status (OR = 3.247, 95% CI: 0.897–11.754), parents’ OHL score (OR = 0.042, 95% CI: 0.016–0.114), and child age (OR = 2.195, 95% CI: 1.249–3.857) were significantly associated with dental caries in children. Our study concluded that parents’ employment status, age, gender, OHL, and child’s age were significantly associated with the caries experience of their preschool children.

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“…This complex scenario might be partly explained by insufficient levels of oral health literacy reported among these populations. There is evidence suggesting that the potential effects of individual oral health literacy are not limited to one's oral health status and access to dental services as poor parents' oral health literacy has been associated with worse child oral health status [55]. This is particularly relevant for our study as our sample was predominantly composed by young adult women and relatively large families.…”

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The utility of network analysis in the context of Indigenous Australian oral health literacy

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Background The study of oral health literacy (OHL) is likely to gain new and interesting insights with the use of network analysis, a powerful analytical tool that allows the investigation of complex systems of relationships. Our aim was to investigate the relationships between oral health literacy and oral health-related factors in a sample of Indigenous Australian adults using a network analysis approach. Methods Data from 400 Indigenous Australian adults was used to estimate four regularised partial correlation networks. Initially, a network with the 14 items of the Health Literacy in Dentistry scale (HeLD-14) was estimated. In a second step, psychosocial, sociodemographic and oral health-related factors were included in the network. Finally, two networks were estimated for participants with high and low oral health literacy. Participants were categorised into 'high' or 'low' OHL networks based on a median split. Centrality measures, clustering coefficients, network stability, and edge accuracy were evaluated. A permutation-based test was used to test differences between networks. Results Solid connections among HeLD-14 items followed the structure of theoretical domains across all networks. Oral health-related self-efficacy, sporting activities, and self-rated oral health status were the strongest positively associated nodes with items of the HeLD-14 scale. HeLD-14 items were the four most central nodes in both HeLD-14 + covariates network and high OHL network, but not in the low OHL network. Differences between high and low OHL models were observed in terms of overall network structure, edge weight, and clustering coefficient. Conclusion Network models captured the dynamic relationships between oral health literacy and psychosocial, sociodemographic and oral health-related factors. Discussion on the implications

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“…Prior literature supports the relationship between these central items identified in the mothers’ baseline network and children's dental outcomes. Mothers’ high oral health literacy levels have been associated to lower dmft in children 29 . Similarly, studies reported that parents with increased oral health self‐efficacy are more likely to have children with better dental health and that use dental services more regularly 30 .…”

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Do network centrality measures predict dental outcomes of Indigenous children over time?

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Int J Paed Dentistry

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Background Centrality measures identify items that are central to a network, which may inform potential targets for oral interventions. Aim We tested whether centrality measures in a cross‐sectional network of mothers’ baseline factors are able to predict the association with children's dental outcomes at age 5 years. Design A network approach was applied to longitudinal data from a randomised controlled trial of dental caries prevention delivered to 448 women pregnant with an Indigenous child in South Australia. Central items were identified at baseline using three centrality measures (strength, betweenness, and closeness). Centrality values of mothers’ outcomes were regressed with their predictive values to dental caries experience and dental service utilisation at child age 5 years. Results Items of oral health self‐efficacy and oral health literacy were central to mothers’ baseline network. Strength at baseline explained 51% and 45% of items’ predictive values to dental caries experience and dental service utilisation at child age 5 years, respectively. Adjusted and unadjusted values of node strength for the children's oral health network were highly correlated. Conclusion Strength at baseline successfully identified mothers’ items with greater importance to dental caries experience and dental service utilisation at child age 5 years.

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Mothers’ oral health literacy and children’s oral health status in Pikine, Senegal: A pilot study

Cited by 30 publications

References 25 publications

Assessment of Parents’ Oral Health Literacy and Its Association with Caries Experience of Their Preschool Children

Assessment of Parents’ Oral Health Literacy and Its Association with Caries Experience of Their Preschool Children

The utility of network analysis in the context of Indigenous Australian oral health literacy

Do network centrality measures predict dental outcomes of Indigenous children over time?

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