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Oral health and the impact of socio-behavioural factors in a cross sectional survey of 12-year old school children in Laos
BACKGROUND: In recent decades low-income countries experienced an increasing trend in dental caries among children, particularly recorded in 12-year olds, which is the principal WHO indicator age group for children. This increases the risks of negative affects on children's life. Some data exis...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2781791/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19917089 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6831-9-29 |
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description | BACKGROUND: In recent decades low-income countries experienced an increasing trend in dental caries among children, particularly recorded in 12-year olds, which is the principal WHO indicator age group for children. This increases the risks of negative affects on children's life. Some data exist on the oral health status of children in low-income countries of Southeast Asia. However, information on how oral health is associated with socio-behavioural factors is almost not available. The aims of this study were to: assess the level of oral health of Lao 12-year-olds in urban and semi-urban settings; study the impact of poor oral health on quality of life; analyse the association between oral health and socio-behavioural factors; investigate the relation between obesity and oral health. METHODS: A cross sectional study of 12-year old schoolchildren chosen by multistage random sampling in Vientiane, Lao P.D.R (hereafter Laos). The final study population comprised 621 children. The study consisted of: clinical registration of caries and periodontal status, and scores for dental trauma according to WHO; structured questionnaire; measurement of anthropometric data. Frequency distributions for bi-variate analysis and logistic regression for multivariate analysis were used for assessment of statistical association between variables. RESULTS: Mean DMFT was 1.8 (SEM = 0.09) while caries prevalence was 56% (CI95 = 52-60). Prevalence of gingival bleeding was 99% (CI95 = 98-100) with 47% (CI95 = 45-49) of present teeth affected. Trauma was observed in 7% (CI95 = 5-9) of the children. High decay was seen in children with dental visits and frequent consumption of sweet drinks. Missed school classes, tooth ache and several impairments of daily life activities were associated with a high dD-component. No associations were found between Body Mass Index (BMI) and oral health or common risk factors. The multivariate analyses revealed high risk for caries for children with low or moderate attitude towards health, a history of dental visits and a preference for drinking sugary drinks during school hours. Low risk was found for children with good or average perception of own oral health. High risk for gingival bleeding was seen in semi-urban children and boys. CONCLUSION: Although the caries level is low it causes considerable negative impact on daily life. School based health promotion should be implemented focussing on skills based learning and attitudes towards health. |
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spelling | pubmed-27817912009-11-25 Oral health and the impact of socio-behavioural factors in a cross sectional survey of 12-year old school children in Laos Jürgensen, Nanna Petersen, Poul Erik BMC Oral Health Research article BACKGROUND: In recent decades low-income countries experienced an increasing trend in dental caries among children, particularly recorded in 12-year olds, which is the principal WHO indicator age group for children. This increases the risks of negative affects on children's life. Some data exist on the oral health status of children in low-income countries of Southeast Asia. However, information on how oral health is associated with socio-behavioural factors is almost not available. The aims of this study were to: assess the level of oral health of Lao 12-year-olds in urban and semi-urban settings; study the impact of poor oral health on quality of life; analyse the association between oral health and socio-behavioural factors; investigate the relation between obesity and oral health. METHODS: A cross sectional study of 12-year old schoolchildren chosen by multistage random sampling in Vientiane, Lao P.D.R (hereafter Laos). The final study population comprised 621 children. The study consisted of: clinical registration of caries and periodontal status, and scores for dental trauma according to WHO; structured questionnaire; measurement of anthropometric data. Frequency distributions for bi-variate analysis and logistic regression for multivariate analysis were used for assessment of statistical association between variables. RESULTS: Mean DMFT was 1.8 (SEM = 0.09) while caries prevalence was 56% (CI95 = 52-60). Prevalence of gingival bleeding was 99% (CI95 = 98-100) with 47% (CI95 = 45-49) of present teeth affected. Trauma was observed in 7% (CI95 = 5-9) of the children. High decay was seen in children with dental visits and frequent consumption of sweet drinks. Missed school classes, tooth ache and several impairments of daily life activities were associated with a high dD-component. No associations were found between Body Mass Index (BMI) and oral health or common risk factors. The multivariate analyses revealed high risk for caries for children with low or moderate attitude towards health, a history of dental visits and a preference for drinking sugary drinks during school hours. Low risk was found for children with good or average perception of own oral health. High risk for gingival bleeding was seen in semi-urban children and boys. CONCLUSION: Although the caries level is low it causes considerable negative impact on daily life. School based health promotion should be implemented focussing on skills based learning and attitudes towards health. BioMed Central 2009-11-16 /pmc/articles/PMC2781791/ /pubmed/19917089 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6831-9-29 Text en Copyright ©2009 Jürgensen and Petersen; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research article Jürgensen, Nanna Petersen, Poul Erik Oral health and the impact of socio-behavioural factors in a cross sectional survey of 12-year old school children in Laos |
title | Oral health and the impact of socio-behavioural factors in a cross sectional survey of 12-year old school children in Laos |
title_full | Oral health and the impact of socio-behavioural factors in a cross sectional survey of 12-year old school children in Laos |
title_fullStr | Oral health and the impact of socio-behavioural factors in a cross sectional survey of 12-year old school children in Laos |
title_full_unstemmed | Oral health and the impact of socio-behavioural factors in a cross sectional survey of 12-year old school children in Laos |
title_short | Oral health and the impact of socio-behavioural factors in a cross sectional survey of 12-year old school children in Laos |
title_sort | oral health and the impact of socio-behavioural factors in a cross sectional survey of 12-year old school children in laos |
topic | Research article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2781791/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19917089 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6831-9-29 |
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