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Caregiver's education level and child's dental caries in African Americans: a path analytic study.
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- An investigation of the association between parenting style and child's dental caries: a cross-sectional study.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Dental caries prevalence in children during temporary protective care according to type of abuse.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Oral Care Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of Black/African American Caregivers of Autistic Children and Non-Autistic Children.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Development and Implementation Path of Kindergarten Stem Educational Activities Based on Data Mining.Computational intelligence and neuroscience · 2022Article
- Early predictors of childhood caries among 4-year-old children: a population-based study in north-eastern France.European archives of paediatric dentistry : official journal of the European Academy of Paediatric Dentistry · 2021Observational
- Dental Caries Status and its Related Factors in Iran: A Meta-Analysis.Journal of dentistry (Shiraz, Iran) · 2020Article
- The Persistence of Oral Health Disparities for African American Children: A Scoping Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Burden, Positive Aspects, and Predictive Variables of Caregiving: A Study of Caregivers of Patients with Pediatric Glaucoma.Journal of ophthalmology · 2019Article
- Association between type of health insurance and children's oral health, NHANES 2011-2014.Journal of public health dentistry · 2018Article
- A mediation analysis study: The influence of mothers' dental anxiety on children's dental utilization among low-income African Americans.Community dentistry and oral epidemiology · 2017Article
- The effect of social geographic factors on the untreated tooth decay among head start children.Journal of clinical and experimental dentistry · 2017Article
- Dental fear among transgender individuals - a cross-sectional survey.Special care in dentistry : official publication of the American Association of Hospital Dentists, the Academy of Dentistry for the Handicapped, and the American Society for Geriatric Dentistry · 2017Article
- Intergenerational and Social Interventions to Improve Children's Oral Health.Dental clinics of North America · 2017Review
- Maternal Allostatic Load, Caretaking Behaviors, and Child Dental Caries Experience: A Cross-Sectional Evaluation of Linked Mother-Child Data From the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.American journal of public health · 2015Article
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Abstract
The objective of this study was to investigate the influence of caregiver education level on children's dental caries mediated by both caregiver and child oral health behaviors. Participants were 423 low-income African American kindergarteners and their caregivers who were part of a school-based randomized clinical trial. Path analysis tested the hypothesis that caregiver education level affected untreated dental caries and cumulative overall caries experience (decayed or filled teeth) through the mediating influence of frequency of dental visits, use of routine care, and frequency of toothbrushing for both the caregiver and the child. The results supported the hypothesis: caregivers who completed high school were 1.76 times more likely to visit dentists compared with those who did not complete high school (e(0.56) = 1.76, 95% CI: 1.03-2.99), which in turn was associated with 5.78 times greater odds of dental visits among their children (e(1.76) = 5.78, 95% CI: 3.53-9.48). Children's dental visits, subsequently, were associated with 26% fewer untreated decayed teeth compared with children without dental visits (e(-0.31) = 0.74, 95% CI: 0.60-0.91). However, this path was not present in the model with overall caries experience. Additionally, caregiver education level was directly associated with 34% less untreated decayed teeth (e(-0.42) = 0.66, 95% CI: 0.54-0.79) and 28% less decayed or filled teeth (e(-0.32) = 0.72, 95% CI: 0.60-0.88) among the children. This study overcomes important conceptual and analytic limitations in the existing literature. The findings confirm the role of caregiver education in child dental caries and indicate that caregiver's behavioral factors are important mediators of child oral health.
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