Guardians’ Self-Reported Fair/Poor Oral Health Is Associated with Their Young Children’s Fair/Poor Oral Health and Clinically Determined Dental Caries Experience
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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n (%) | |
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Entire sample * | 7852 (100) |
Child’s age | |
3 years | 2525 (32) |
4 years | 4108 (52) |
5 years | 1219 (16) |
months, mean (SD) | 52 (7) |
Sex † | |
boy | 3894 (50) |
girl | 3957 (50) |
Race/ethnicity | |
non-Hispanic Black | 3765 (48) |
non-Hispanic White | 1411 (18) |
Hispanic | 1549 (20) |
more than one/other | 1127 (14) |
Dental home | |
yes | 6433 (84) |
no | 1264 (16) |
Guardians’ educational attainment | |
some elementary | 350 (5) |
some high school | 1090 (14) |
high school/GED diploma | 2918 (38) |
some technical/college education | 2236 (29) |
college or more | 1120 (15) |
n (%) | |
---|---|
Guardians’ reported oral health status | |
excellent | 765 (10) |
very good | 1727 (22) |
good | 2861 (36) |
fair | 1859 (24) |
poor | 640 (8) |
Children’s reported oral health status | |
excellent | 1748 (22) |
very good | 2463 (32) |
good | 2393 (31) |
fair | 1028 (13) |
poor | 168 (2) |
Children’s * clinically determined oral health status † | |
no ECC | 2876 (46) |
ECC | 3367 (54) |
Children’s * clinically determined unrestored disease ‡ | |
no unrestored disease | 4002 (64) |
unrestored disease | 2241 (36) |
Guardians’ Reported Oral Health Status | Estimates of Association with Children’s Oral Health | ||
---|---|---|---|
Excellent, Very Good, or Good | Fair or Poor | Adjusted Average Marginal Effect | |
n (column %) | n (column %) | Percentage Points (p.p.) and 95% Confidence Interval | |
entire sample, n (row %) | 5323 (68) | 2477 (32) | |
Children’s subjective oral health | |||
excellent/very good/good oral health | 4931 (93) | 1673 (68) | referent |
fair/poor reported oral health | 392 (7) | 804 (32) | +19 p.p. (+17 p.p., +21 p.p.) |
Clinically determined oral health | |||
not ECC case (dmfs = 0) | 2102 (50) | 774 (39) | referent |
ECC case (dmfs ≥ 1) | 2139 (50) | 1228 (61) | +9 p.p. (+6 p.p., +12 p.p.) |
Unrestored disease | |||
no unrestored disease (ds = 0) | 2841 (67) | 1161 (58) | referent |
unrestored disease (ds ≥ 1) | 1400 (33) | 841 (42) | +7 p.p. (+4 p.p., +9 p.p.) |
Guardians’ Ethnicity | Guardians’ Education | Reported Dental Home | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hispanic | Non-Hispanic | <High School | ≥High School | Yes | No | |
AME, p.p. (95% CI) | AME, p.p. (95% CI) | AME, p.p. (95% CI) | AME, p.p. (95% CI) | AME, p.p. (95% CI) | AME, p.p. (95% CI) | |
Children’s oral health | ||||||
fair or poor subjective oral health | 27 (23, 31) | 17 (15, 19) | 27 (24, 31) | 18 (15, 20) | 17 (15, 20) | 28 (25, 32) |
clinically determined ECC | 11 (5, 17) | 8 (5, 11) | 5 (−2, 12) | 10 (7, 13) | 8 (5, 12) | 11 (6, 15) |
unrestored disease | 10 (4, 16) | 6 (4, 9) | 6 (0, 13) | 8 (5, 10) | 6 (4, 9) | 10 (3, 16) |
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Jones, K.E.; Simancas-Pallares, M.A.; Ginnis, J.; Shrestha, P.; Divaris, K. Guardians’ Self-Reported Fair/Poor Oral Health Is Associated with Their Young Children’s Fair/Poor Oral Health and Clinically Determined Dental Caries Experience. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20, 632. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20010632
Jones KE, Simancas-Pallares MA, Ginnis J, Shrestha P, Divaris K. Guardians’ Self-Reported Fair/Poor Oral Health Is Associated with Their Young Children’s Fair/Poor Oral Health and Clinically Determined Dental Caries Experience. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2023; 20(1):632. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20010632
Chicago/Turabian StyleJones, Kaitlin E., Miguel A. Simancas-Pallares, Jeannie Ginnis, Poojan Shrestha, and Kimon Divaris. 2023. "Guardians’ Self-Reported Fair/Poor Oral Health Is Associated with Their Young Children’s Fair/Poor Oral Health and Clinically Determined Dental Caries Experience" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 20, no. 1: 632. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20010632
APA StyleJones, K. E., Simancas-Pallares, M. A., Ginnis, J., Shrestha, P., & Divaris, K. (2023). Guardians’ Self-Reported Fair/Poor Oral Health Is Associated with Their Young Children’s Fair/Poor Oral Health and Clinically Determined Dental Caries Experience. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(1), 632. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20010632