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Relationship between Dental Caries Experience and Social Capital among Children – A Pilot Study

BACKGROUND: The effect of larger and distal environmental and societal factors on oral health is established and the concept of social capital (SC) is gaining importance. AIM: The aim of the study is to evaluate the association of dental caries (DC) experience of children with parental social SC. ME...

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Autores principales: Kumar, Yeturu Sravan, Rakesh, P. S., Kalyana-Chakravarthy, Pentapati, Kumar, S. Vijay
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6824167/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31728079
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijcm.IJCM_11_19
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author Kumar, Yeturu Sravan
Rakesh, P. S.
Kalyana-Chakravarthy, Pentapati
Kumar, S. Vijay
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Rakesh, P. S.
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description BACKGROUND: The effect of larger and distal environmental and societal factors on oral health is established and the concept of social capital (SC) is gaining importance. AIM: The aim of the study is to evaluate the association of dental caries (DC) experience of children with parental social SC. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 200 pairs of 5–12-year-old children and their parents of Kaloor (65(th) division), Kerala. A 30-item self-administered neighborhood SC Index questionnaire. DC of children was assessed as per the WHO guidelines. RESULTS: The final analysis included 186 pairs of children and parents, out of which 54.8% were boys. The mean caries experience of children was 3.3 ± 3.7. A significantly higher proportion of parents rated their children as “poor oral health” in caries experienced group than caries-free group (P = 0.006). No other significant differences were found with total SC and demographic variables except for “frequency of having meal together.” Regression analysis showed that trust, control, and political domains were significant with carious status. On adjusting the confounders that were significant in bivariate analysis, only control domain of the SC remained significant. CONCLUSION: The social control domain (family members or neighbors actions that seek to correct deviant behavior) of SC was associated with caries experience of the children. Distal factors such as SC can influence the caries status of children.
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spelling pubmed-68241672019-11-14 Relationship between Dental Caries Experience and Social Capital among Children – A Pilot Study Kumar, Yeturu Sravan Rakesh, P. S. Kalyana-Chakravarthy, Pentapati Kumar, S. Vijay Indian J Community Med Original Article BACKGROUND: The effect of larger and distal environmental and societal factors on oral health is established and the concept of social capital (SC) is gaining importance. AIM: The aim of the study is to evaluate the association of dental caries (DC) experience of children with parental social SC. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 200 pairs of 5–12-year-old children and their parents of Kaloor (65(th) division), Kerala. A 30-item self-administered neighborhood SC Index questionnaire. DC of children was assessed as per the WHO guidelines. RESULTS: The final analysis included 186 pairs of children and parents, out of which 54.8% were boys. The mean caries experience of children was 3.3 ± 3.7. A significantly higher proportion of parents rated their children as “poor oral health” in caries experienced group than caries-free group (P = 0.006). No other significant differences were found with total SC and demographic variables except for “frequency of having meal together.” Regression analysis showed that trust, control, and political domains were significant with carious status. On adjusting the confounders that were significant in bivariate analysis, only control domain of the SC remained significant. CONCLUSION: The social control domain (family members or neighbors actions that seek to correct deviant behavior) of SC was associated with caries experience of the children. Distal factors such as SC can influence the caries status of children. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019-10 /pmc/articles/PMC6824167/ /pubmed/31728079 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijcm.IJCM_11_19 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Indian Journal of Community Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Relationship between Dental Caries Experience and Social Capital among Children – A Pilot Study
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title_fullStr Relationship between Dental Caries Experience and Social Capital among Children – A Pilot Study
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title_short Relationship between Dental Caries Experience and Social Capital among Children – A Pilot Study
title_sort relationship between dental caries experience and social capital among children – a pilot study
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6824167/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31728079
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijcm.IJCM_11_19
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