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Does the Association between Guardians’ Sense of Coherence and their Children’s Untreated Caries Differ According to Socioeconomic Status?

Untreated caries is the most prevalent disease in the world. A sense of coherence (SOC) is believed to contribute to oral health. We aimed to clarify the association between guardians’ SOC and their children’s caries based on socioeconomic status (SES) in Japan. This study’s subjects were Japanese p...

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Autores principales: Mizuta, Akiko, Aida, Jun, Nakamura, Mieko, Ojima, Toshiyuki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7084832/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32138204
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17051619
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author Mizuta, Akiko
Aida, Jun
Nakamura, Mieko
Ojima, Toshiyuki
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Aida, Jun
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Ojima, Toshiyuki
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description Untreated caries is the most prevalent disease in the world. A sense of coherence (SOC) is believed to contribute to oral health. We aimed to clarify the association between guardians’ SOC and their children’s caries based on socioeconomic status (SES) in Japan. This study’s subjects were Japanese public junior high schoolers (N = 1730), aged 12–15, and their guardians in Kosai City. We administered a questionnaire survey among guardians in 2016 to assess their SOC and family environment. With their students’ consent, public junior high schools shared the results of the dental examinations that were part of their school physicals. Multivariate logistic regression was conducted to clarify the association between guardians’ SOC and their children’s untreated decayed permanent teeth. We also conducted a stratified analysis according to a relative poverty line. We observed in the multivariate regression a significant inverse association between children’s untreated decay and their guardians’ SOC (OR 0.93, 95%CI 0.87–1.00). The association of SOC was stronger in the low economic group (OR 0.64, 95%CI 0.43–0.95). Guardians with higher SOC were associated with children having fewer caries. Guardians’ SOC is a factor for the prevalence of caries and access to dental care, especially among children with low economic status.
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spelling pubmed-70848322020-03-23 Does the Association between Guardians’ Sense of Coherence and their Children’s Untreated Caries Differ According to Socioeconomic Status? Mizuta, Akiko Aida, Jun Nakamura, Mieko Ojima, Toshiyuki Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Untreated caries is the most prevalent disease in the world. A sense of coherence (SOC) is believed to contribute to oral health. We aimed to clarify the association between guardians’ SOC and their children’s caries based on socioeconomic status (SES) in Japan. This study’s subjects were Japanese public junior high schoolers (N = 1730), aged 12–15, and their guardians in Kosai City. We administered a questionnaire survey among guardians in 2016 to assess their SOC and family environment. With their students’ consent, public junior high schools shared the results of the dental examinations that were part of their school physicals. Multivariate logistic regression was conducted to clarify the association between guardians’ SOC and their children’s untreated decayed permanent teeth. We also conducted a stratified analysis according to a relative poverty line. We observed in the multivariate regression a significant inverse association between children’s untreated decay and their guardians’ SOC (OR 0.93, 95%CI 0.87–1.00). The association of SOC was stronger in the low economic group (OR 0.64, 95%CI 0.43–0.95). Guardians with higher SOC were associated with children having fewer caries. Guardians’ SOC is a factor for the prevalence of caries and access to dental care, especially among children with low economic status. MDPI 2020-03-03 2020-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7084832/ /pubmed/32138204 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17051619 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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title Does the Association between Guardians’ Sense of Coherence and their Children’s Untreated Caries Differ According to Socioeconomic Status?
title_full Does the Association between Guardians’ Sense of Coherence and their Children’s Untreated Caries Differ According to Socioeconomic Status?
title_fullStr Does the Association between Guardians’ Sense of Coherence and their Children’s Untreated Caries Differ According to Socioeconomic Status?
title_full_unstemmed Does the Association between Guardians’ Sense of Coherence and their Children’s Untreated Caries Differ According to Socioeconomic Status?
title_short Does the Association between Guardians’ Sense of Coherence and their Children’s Untreated Caries Differ According to Socioeconomic Status?
title_sort does the association between guardians’ sense of coherence and their children’s untreated caries differ according to socioeconomic status?
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7084832/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32138204
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17051619
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