ArticlePediatric dentistry
Reliability and validity of brief measures of oral health-related knowledge, fatalism, and self-efficacy in mothers of African American children.
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The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Oral Health Care Early Intervention Project
Detroit Research Center on Oral Health Disparities
Who cites it
52 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 109 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Motivational Interviewing and Childhood Caries: A Randomised Controlled Trial.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Trial
- Education intervention with respect to the oral health knowledge, attitude, and behaviors of refugee families: A randomized clinical trial of effectiveness.Journal of public health dentistry · 2021Trial
- An Interactive Parent-Targeted Text Messaging Intervention to Improve Oral Health in Children Attending Urban Pediatric Clinics: Feasibility Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2019Trial
- Oral Health Behavior Change in Mexican-American Caregivers: A Community-Based Intervention Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Trial
- Association of parental health literacy with oral health of Navajo Nation preschoolers.Health education research · 2016Trial
- Family Access to a Dentist Study (FADS): A multi-center randomized controlled trial.Contemporary clinical trials · 2015Trial
- Dental attendance among low-income women and their children following a brief motivational counseling intervention: A community randomized trial.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2015Trial
- The effect of motivational interviewing on oral healthcare knowledge, attitudes and behaviour of parents and caregivers of preschool children: an exploratory cluster randomised controlled study.BMC oral health · 2015Trial
- Design of a community-based intergenerational oral health study: "Baby Smiles".BMC oral health · 2013Trial
- Brief oral health promotion intervention among parents of young children to reduce early childhood dental decay.BMC public health · 2013Trial
- An oral health literacy intervention for Indigenous adults in a rural setting in Australia.BMC public health · 2012Trial
- Validation and Impact of Caregivers' Oral Health Knowledge and Behavior on Children's Oral Health Status.Pediatric dentistryTrial
- Variables associated with oral health-related self-efficacy - results of a cross-sectional study.BMC oral health · 2023Article
- Early childhood caries: parents' knowledge, attitude and practice towards its prevention in refugee camps in Erbil, Iraq.BMC oral health · 2023Article
- The differential predictive utility of two caregiver-targeted self-efficacy measures to promote oral health of underserved children.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2023Article
- The relationship between overprotective parenting, toothbrushing practices and children's behaviour during dental treatments in 4 to 11-year-old Dutch children: a cross sectional study.European archives of paediatric dentistry : official journal of the European Academy of Paediatric Dentistry · 2023Article
- Delay of Dental Care: An Exploratory Study of Procrastination, Dental Attendance, and Self-Reported Oral Health.Dentistry journal · 2023Article
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Abstract
purposeLow-income African American children experience high rates of dental caries compared to the general population. Knowledgeable and efficacious caregivers can play an important role in caries prevention. The purpose of this study was to develop and evaluate 4 brief measures reflecting mothers' potentially modifiable cognitions associated with African American children's oral health: (1) knowledge about appropriate bottle use (KBU); (2) knowledge about children's oral hygiene (KCOH); (3) oral health-related fatalism (OHF); and (4) oral health-related self-efficacy (OHSE).
methodsQuestions were selected based on reviews of the health promotion and oral health literature, with input from low-income African American caregivers of young children. Reliability and validity were evaluated using survey and dental examination data from 719 low-income African American mothers and their 1- to 5-year-old children.
resultsAlpha reliabilities ranged from 0.76 to 0.91. KCOH was significantly associated with mothers' oral health perceptions and children's caries status. OHSE was significantly positively correlated with children's brushing frequency and with mothers' subjective perceptions of children's oral health, which was, in turn, significantly associated with children's caries status.
conclusionsResults support the reliability and validity of the new measures. If confirmed by further research, these measures can be used to develop tailored educational and cognitive-behavioral interventions to reduce oral health disparities.
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