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Parental occupations, educational levels, and income and prevalence of dental caries in 3-year-old Japanese children
BACKGROUND: Most studies have investigated the association between parental socioeconomic factors and dental caries in children based on educational and income levels; studies focusing on parental occupation, however, have been relatively limited. This cross-sectional study examined the associations...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5729505/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29237397 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12199-017-0688-6 |
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author | Kato, Hiromasa Tanaka, Keiko Shimizu, Ken Nagata, Chisato Furukawa, Shinya Arakawa, Masashi Miyake, Yoshihiro |
author_facet | Kato, Hiromasa Tanaka, Keiko Shimizu, Ken Nagata, Chisato Furukawa, Shinya Arakawa, Masashi Miyake, Yoshihiro |
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description | BACKGROUND: Most studies have investigated the association between parental socioeconomic factors and dental caries in children based on educational and income levels; studies focusing on parental occupation, however, have been relatively limited. This cross-sectional study examined the associations between parental occupations and levels of education and household income and the prevalence of dental caries in Japanese children aged 3 years. METHODS: Study subjects were 6315 children. Oral examination results were obtained from the parents or guardians, who transcribed the information recorded by medical staff at a public health center from their maternal and child health handbooks to our self-administered questionnaire. Children were classified as having dental caries if one or more primary teeth had decayed or had been filled. Adjustment was made for sex, age, region of residence, breastfeeding duration, between-meal snack frequency, toothbrushing frequency, use of fluoride, regular dental check-ups, maternal smoking during pregnancy, and living with at least one household smoker. RESULTS: The prevalence of dental caries was 14.7%. Compared with having an unemployed father, having a father employed in professional and engineering, clerical, sales, security, or manufacturing process was significantly associated with a lower prevalence of dental caries. Compared with having an unemployed mother, having a mother employed in professional and engineering or service was significantly inversely associated with the prevalence of dental caries. Significant inverse associations were observed between parental levels of education and household income and the prevalence of dental caries. CONCLUSIONS: The findings of our study suggest that parental occupation affects the prevalence of dental caries in children. We confirm that higher levels of parental education and household income decreased the prevalence of dental caries. |
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spelling | pubmed-57295052017-12-18 Parental occupations, educational levels, and income and prevalence of dental caries in 3-year-old Japanese children Kato, Hiromasa Tanaka, Keiko Shimizu, Ken Nagata, Chisato Furukawa, Shinya Arakawa, Masashi Miyake, Yoshihiro Environ Health Prev Med Research Article BACKGROUND: Most studies have investigated the association between parental socioeconomic factors and dental caries in children based on educational and income levels; studies focusing on parental occupation, however, have been relatively limited. This cross-sectional study examined the associations between parental occupations and levels of education and household income and the prevalence of dental caries in Japanese children aged 3 years. METHODS: Study subjects were 6315 children. Oral examination results were obtained from the parents or guardians, who transcribed the information recorded by medical staff at a public health center from their maternal and child health handbooks to our self-administered questionnaire. Children were classified as having dental caries if one or more primary teeth had decayed or had been filled. Adjustment was made for sex, age, region of residence, breastfeeding duration, between-meal snack frequency, toothbrushing frequency, use of fluoride, regular dental check-ups, maternal smoking during pregnancy, and living with at least one household smoker. RESULTS: The prevalence of dental caries was 14.7%. Compared with having an unemployed father, having a father employed in professional and engineering, clerical, sales, security, or manufacturing process was significantly associated with a lower prevalence of dental caries. Compared with having an unemployed mother, having a mother employed in professional and engineering or service was significantly inversely associated with the prevalence of dental caries. Significant inverse associations were observed between parental levels of education and household income and the prevalence of dental caries. CONCLUSIONS: The findings of our study suggest that parental occupation affects the prevalence of dental caries in children. We confirm that higher levels of parental education and household income decreased the prevalence of dental caries. BioMed Central 2017-12-13 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5729505/ /pubmed/29237397 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12199-017-0688-6 Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Kato, Hiromasa Tanaka, Keiko Shimizu, Ken Nagata, Chisato Furukawa, Shinya Arakawa, Masashi Miyake, Yoshihiro Parental occupations, educational levels, and income and prevalence of dental caries in 3-year-old Japanese children |
title | Parental occupations, educational levels, and income and prevalence of dental caries in 3-year-old Japanese children |
title_full | Parental occupations, educational levels, and income and prevalence of dental caries in 3-year-old Japanese children |
title_fullStr | Parental occupations, educational levels, and income and prevalence of dental caries in 3-year-old Japanese children |
title_full_unstemmed | Parental occupations, educational levels, and income and prevalence of dental caries in 3-year-old Japanese children |
title_short | Parental occupations, educational levels, and income and prevalence of dental caries in 3-year-old Japanese children |
title_sort | parental occupations, educational levels, and income and prevalence of dental caries in 3-year-old japanese children |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5729505/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29237397 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12199-017-0688-6 |
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