Trial reportJournal of public health dentistry2014
Oral health status in Navajo Nation Head Start children.
Trial report in Journal of public health dentistry, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT01116739 (Preventing Caries in Preschoolers), which is not on this map. Cited by 22 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Preventing Caries in Preschoolers: Testing a Unique Service Delivery Model in American Indian Head Start Programs
Who cites it
22 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 27 citations in OpenAlex.
- Early Childhood Caries in Indigenous Communities.Pediatrics · 2021Guideline
- Effect of Antimicrobial Interventions on the Oral Microbiota Associated with Early Childhood Caries.Pediatric dentistryPooled it
- Association of Ethnic Identity with Oral Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Behavior, and Outcomes on the Navajo Nation.Journal of health care for the poor and underserved · 2019Trial
- A Cluster-Randomized, Community-Based, Tribally Delivered Oral Health Promotion Trial in Navajo Head Start Children.Journal of dental research · 2016Trial
- A Community-Based Oral Health Intervention in Navajo Nation Head Start: Participation Factors and Contextual Challenges.Journal of community health · 2016Trial
- Association of parental health literacy with oral health of Navajo Nation preschoolers.Health education research · 2016Trial
- Validation and Impact of Caregivers' Oral Health Knowledge and Behavior on Children's Oral Health Status.Pediatric dentistryTrial
- Indigenous-non-Indigenous inequalities in oral health prevention among children and adolescents in Ecuador: a cross-sectional study.International journal for equity in health · 2026Article
- Feasibility and preliminary outcomes of a culturally adapted motivational interviewing intervention to reduce early childhood caries among children of two American Indian communities.Discover public health · 2025Article
- Healthy Drinks, Healthy Teeth - Ciunerkaq Tanqigtuq (The Future is Bright): A study protocol for a community-based, non-randomized sociobehavioral trial to reduce added sugar intake in Alaska Native Yup'ik children in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.Contemporary clinical trials · 2024Article
- The Evolving Microbiome of Dental Caries.Microorganisms · 2024Review
- Influence of Parental Health Literacy on Change over Time in the Oral Health of American Indian Children.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- How Neoliberalism Shapes Indigenous Oral Health Inequalities Globally: Examples from Five Countries.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Exposure to uranium and co-occurring metals among pregnant Navajo women.Environmental research · 2020Article
- Indigenous Oral Health Inequalities at an International Level: A Commentary.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Validation of Psychosocial Measures Assessing American Indian Parental Beliefs Related to Control over Their Children's Oral Health.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Validity of Measures Assessing Oral Health Beliefs of American Indian Parents.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2018Article
- Parental psychosocial factors and childhood caries prevention: Data from an American Indian population.Community dentistry and oral epidemiology · 2018Article
- The basic research factors questionnaire for studying early childhood caries.BMC oral health · 2017Article
- Effectiveness on Early Childhood Caries of an Oral Health Promotion Program for Medical Providers.American journal of public health · 2017Article
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10 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
objectiveThis study assessed oral health status for preschool-aged children in the Navajo Nation to obtain data on baseline decayed, missing, and filled tooth surfaces (dmfs) and dental caries patterns, describe sociodemographic correlates of children's baseline dmfs measures, and compare the children's dmfs measures with previous dental survey data for the Navajo Nation from the Indian Health Service and the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES).
methodsThe analyzed study sample included 981 child/caregiver dyads residing in the Navajo Nation who completed baseline dmfs assessments for an ongoing randomized clinical trial involving Navajo Nation Head Start Centers. Calibrated dental hygienists collected baseline dmfs data from child participants ages 3-5 years (488 males and 493 females), and caregivers completed a basic research factors questionnaire.
resultsMean dmfs for the study population was 21.33 (SD=19.99) and not appreciably different from the 1999 Indian Health Service survey of Navajo Nation preschool-aged children (mean=19.02, SD=16.59, P=0.08). However, only 69.5 percent of children in the current study had untreated decay compared with 82.9 percent in the 1999 Indian Health Service survey (P<0.0001). Study results were considerably higher than the 16.0 percent reported for 2-4-year-old children in the whites-only group from the 1999-2004 NHANES data. Age had the strongest association with dmfs, followed by child gender, then caregiver income and education.
conclusionDental caries in preschool-aged Navajo children is extremely high compared with other US population segments, and dmfs has not appreciably changed for more than a decade.
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