Trial reportPediatric dentistry
Validation and Impact of Caregivers' Oral Health Knowledge and Behavior on Children's Oral Health Status.
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33 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Low income and health literacy: a systematic scoping review.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2025Pooled it
- Family-centred interventions for Indigenous early childhood well-being by primary healthcare services.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2022Pooled it
- Longitudinal Association of Health Literacy with Parental Oral Health Behavior.Health literacy research and practice · 2021Trial
- Parental Ethnic Identity and Its Influence on Children's Oral Health in American Indian Families.International journal of environmental research and public health · 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
- 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
- Fidelity of motivational interviewing in an American Indian oral health intervention.Community dentistry and oral epidemiology · 2018Trial
- A Cluster-Randomized, Community-Based, Tribally Delivered Oral Health Promotion Trial in Navajo Head Start Children.Journal of dental research · 2016Trial
- Association of parental health literacy with oral health of Navajo Nation preschoolers.Health education research · 2016Trial
- Lessons Learned: Why Motivational Interviewing Should Be Adapted to Socio-Cultural Contexts.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Development of Chatbot-Based Oral Health Care for Young Children and Evaluation of its Effectiveness, Usability, and Acceptability: Mixed Methods Study.JMIR pediatrics and parenting · 2025Article
- Early childhood caries risk prediction using machine learning approaches in Bangladesh.BMC oral health · 2025Article
- 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
- Testing a multi-behavioral intervention to improve oral health behaviors in the pediatric dental surgery population: protocol for the PROTECT trial.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Preventive behaviour and attitudes towards early childhood caries amongst mothers of toddlers in Bangladesh.Acta odontologica Scandinavica · 2024Article
- Parental Attitudes towards Child Oral Health and Their Structural Analysis.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Patterns of Change in Parental Health Literacy in Relation to Children's Oral Health.Health literacy research and practice · 2023Article
- The importance of promoting oral health in schools: a pilot study.European journal of translational myology · 2023Article
- Maternal factors associated with early childhood caries among 3-5-year-old children with low socio-economic status in Trishal, Bangladesh.Frontiers in oral health · 2023Article
- Validity and Reliability of questionnaires measuring attitudes to oral health: A review of the literature.Journal of clinical and experimental dentistry · 2022Review
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Abstract
purposeTo validate oral health knowledge and behavior measures from the Basic Research Factors Questionnaire, developed to capture specific themes contributing to children's oral health outcomes and the influence of caregivers.
methodsData were collected as part of a randomized clinical trial (n equals 992) aimed at reducing dental caries in young children. Participants were American Indian/Alaska Native caregivers with a three- to five-year-old child enrolled in a Navajo Nation Head Start Center. Caregivers completed the questionnaire at enrollment with concomitant evaluation of children for decayed, missing, and filled tooth surfaces (dmfs). Oral health knowledge and behavior outcomes were compared with convergent measures (participant sociodemographic characteristics, oral health attitudes, and indicators of oral health status).
resultsCaregiver oral health knowledge was significantly associated with education, income, oral health behavior, and all but one of the oral health attitude measures. Behavior was significantly associated with several measures of oral health attitudes and all but one measure of oral health status. As the behavior score improved, dmfs scores declined, child/caregiver overall oral health status improved, and pediatric oral health quality of life improved.
conclusionsQuestionnaire measures were valid for predicting specific caregiver factors potentially contributing to children's oral health status.
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