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ArticleBMC oral health2021

"What are we doing to our babies' teeth?" Barriers to establishing oral health practices for Indigenous children in South Australia.

Brianna Poirier, Joanne Hedges, Lisa Smithers, Megan Moskos, Lisa Jamieson

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Article in BMC oral health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Brianna PoirierAustralian Research Centre for Population Oral Health, Adelaide Dental School, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, 5000, Australia. Brianna.poirier@adelaide.edu.au.
Joanne HedgesAustralian Research Centre for Population Oral Health, Adelaide Dental School, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, 5000, Australia.
Lisa SmithersSchool of Public Health and the Robinson Research Institute, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, 5000, Australia.
Megan MoskosFuture of Employment and Skills Research Centre, Faculty of the Professions, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, 5000, Australia.
Lisa JamiesonAustralian Research Centre for Population Oral Health, Adelaide Dental School, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, 5000, Australia.
University of Adelaide · AUUniversity of Wollongong · AU

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundDuring the 1970s, optimal oral health was experienced more frequently amongst Indigenous children in Australia than their non-Indigenous counterparts. As a result of public health interventions targeting oral disease, oral health has improved for most children; however, Indigenous children today experience oral disease at alarmingly high rates. A history of colonisation, assimilation, racism and cultural annihilation has had profound impacts on oral health for Indigenous peoples; compounded by environmental dispossession and a shift from traditional diets to one of processed and nutrient-poor foods, often high in sugar.

methodsThis project aimed to identify factors related to the increased occurrence of caries in Indigenous children. Using purposive sampling from the larger project, this paper thematically analyses 327 motivational interviews to explore current barriers impeding parental efforts to establish oral health and nutrition practices for Indigenous children. Representation of socioeconomic positions of families were compared across themes, as based on maternal age, employment, residency and number of children in care.

resultsFindings resulted in a conceptual model of barriers that exist across knowledge, social, structural and parental factors. Major thematic results include: social consumption of processed foods, busy households, misleading nutrition marketing, sugar cravings and lack of oral health and nutrition knowledge.

conclusionA discussion of the findings results in the following recommendations increased oral health promotion efforts in non-metropolitan areas; utilisation of community experiences in creating strategies that encourage oral health and nutrition knowledge; and the extension of oral health initiatives and future research to include all family members. Trial registration Australian New Zealand Clinical Trial Registry ACTRN12611000111976; registered 01/02/2011.

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Dental CariesMouth DiseasesAustraliaChildHumansInfantOral HealthSouth AustraliaDental public healthEarly childhood cariesIndigenous healthIndigenous oral healthNutrition knowledgeOral healthOral health knowledgeSocial determinants of health

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PMID34488721
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