Evidence map›Paper›PMID 30375649›Full record

ArticleAustralian dental journal2019

Risk factors for oral health in young, urban, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children.

K Butten, N W Johnson, K K Hall, J Anderson, M Toombs, N King, K F O'Grady

Abstract read
PubMed Full text at PMC Publisher
In one paragraph

Article in Australian dental journal, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
10citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Review
  3. Article
  4. Developing culturally appropriate food literacy resources for Aboriginal children with Foodbank WA's Superhero FoodsHealth promotion journal of Australia : official journal of Australian Association of Health Promotion Professionals · 2022
    Article
  5. Article
  6. Article
  7. Article
  8. Article
  9. Article
  10. Prevalence of Dental Caries in Indian Tribal Communities: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Journal of International Society of Preventive & Community Dentistry
    Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

K ButtenQueensland University of Technology, Institute of Health & Biomedical Innovation, Centre for Children's Health Research, South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-6100-8469
N W JohnsonMenzies Health Institute Queensland and School of Dentistry and Oral Health, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-5866-262X
K K HallCaboolture Community Medical, Caboolture, Queensland, Australia.
J AndersonCaboolture Community Medical, Caboolture, Queensland, Australia.
M ToombsRural Clinical School, The University of Queensland, South Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-7481-167X
N KingFaculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Queensland, Australia.
K F O'GradyQueensland University of Technology, Institute of Health & Biomedical Innovation, Centre for Children's Health Research, South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-8159-2620

Funding

Australian Postgraduate AwardNHMRC Career Development Fellowship 1045157NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in Lung Health for Indigenous children 1040830Queensland Children's Medical Research Institute Project GrantQueensland Smart Futures FellowshipQueensland University of Technology Indigenous Health start-up research grantSupervisor ScholarshipUQ Foundation Research Excellence Award
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe caries process follows a strong social gradient which can commence in the first years of life. Yet data on young children remain limited. This study reports the potential risk factors and indicators in urban, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children aged less than 5 and estimates the prevalence of caries.

methodsDemographic and risk factor and risk indicator data were collected at baseline in a cohort study of children attending a health clinic in north Brisbane. Dentulous children received a basic oral examination to explore the presence of decayed, missing and filled teeth (dmft). Descriptive analyses were performed. A backwards stepwise logistic regression model was performed to identify potential associations with dmft status.

resultsIn this study, 180 children enrolled: 111 children received the oral examination, of whom 14 (12.6%) (mean age 35 months) were estimated to have dmft >0. There was a high prevalence of socio-economic, dietary and behavioural risk factors/indicators present for children. Due to the small sample size, planned regression was not performed.

conclusionsOverall, the prevalence of risk factors and risk indicators for caries in the study population is high. More culturally appropriate resources that support preventive care need to be invested before children are school aged.

Indexed as

Dental CariesOral HealthAustralian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander PeoplesChildChild, PreschoolCohort StudiesFemaleHumansInfantMaleRisk FactorsAboriginal and Torres Strait Islanderchildrendental cariesrisk factorsurban

Identifiers

PMID30375649
PMCPMC6392135

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.