Oral health behaviours and oral health-related dietary behaviours: The interrelationship and determinants by latent class analysis.
Community Dent Health
; 35(3): 173-178, 2018 Aug 30.
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ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
This study aimed to investigate the level of oral health behaviours (OHB) and oral health-related dietary behaviours (OHD-B) and to find out their relationship and their determinants among a relatively large sample of university students. Research design andparticipants:
In a cross-sectional study, 535 Iranian university students were selected in order to investigate their OHB and OHD-B through a self-administrated questionnaire. MAIN OUTCOMEMEASURES:
Tooth brushing, flossing, use of fluoride toothpaste, and sugary snacking collected data on OHB. Consumption frequency of 16 common cariogenic and non-cariogenic foodstuffs was used for evaluation of OHD-B. Latent class analysis (LCA) and latent class regression (LCR) were applied to identify classes of OHB and OHD-B and their potential determinants, respectively. ANOVA, Chi-square and Spearman's correlation were used.RESULTS:
In total, 49.7% and 53.2% of participants had good OHB and OHD-B, respectively. The results of LCR indicated that female gender (OR 8.22, 95% CI 3.42-19.72), higher age (OR 1.39, 95% CI 1.04-1.85), doctorate level (OR 6.99, 95% CI 2.22-21.98), and being single (OR 3.54, 95% CI 1.36-9.19) were related to good OHB. Furthermore, LCR analysis showed that students who lived with their families had greater chance for having good OHD-B (OR 3.01, 95% CI 2.00-4.53). Students with good OHD-B reported brushing and flossing their teeth more frequently than those with poor OHD-B (P⟨0.05).CONCLUSIONS:
The shortage of favourable oral health behaviours among university students highlights the importance of planning oral health programs to improve their oral health, especially their dietary behaviours.Palabras clave
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Colección:
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Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Higiene Bucal
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Salud Bucal
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Conducta Alimentaria
Tipo de estudio:
Observational_studies
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Prevalence_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Límite:
Female
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Humans
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Male
País/Región como asunto:
Asia
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Community Dent Health
Asunto de la revista:
ODONTOLOGIA
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SAUDE PUBLICA
Año:
2018
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Irán