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Exploring the Link Between Maternal Oral Health Literacy and Child Oral Health Behaviours.
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- Analysis of factors influencing delayed treatment seeking for dental caries in preschool children: a cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Oral Health Practices Among Indigenous Mothers and Young Children (0-36 Months) in Northwest Territories, Canada.International journal of dentistry · 2025Article
- Oral Health Literacy and Its Impact on Oral Health Promotion Behaviors in Peruvian Adults: A Multidimensional Assessment.Journal of International Society of Preventive & Community DentistryArticle
- Association between Oral Health Perception, Dental Knowledge, and Habits and Oral Health Status among Students at Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City: A Cross-sectional Study.Journal of International Society of Preventive & Community DentistryArticle
- A Multifactorial Evaluation of Parental Oral Health Literacy, Attitudinal Construct, and Clinical Oral Disease Burden in Children and Youth With Special Health Care Need (CYSHCN) in India.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 DentistryArticle
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Abstract
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aimsCaregiver's oral health literacy (OHL) has a multidimensional impact on child oral health outcomes. In infants and toddlers, oral health behaviours (OHB) play a crucial role in the development of early childhood caries and could be related to the caregiver's OHL. A simple OHL assessment may help identify children at risk of caries. This study aimed to investigate the association between maternal OHL and the child OHBs during the first 2 years of life.
methodsA cross-sectional study was conducted with 398 mothers of children aged 6 to 24 months. Maternal OHL was assessed using the ThREALD-30. Maternal demographics, oral health knowledge, and child OHBs were collected through self-administered questionnaires. ThREALD-30 scores were compared using the Mann-Whitney U and Kruskal-Wallis tests. Spearman's rank correlation and gamma generalized linear models were used to identify factors associated with OHL. Binary logistic regression examined the association between maternal OHL and child OHBs. The Receiver Operating Characteristics curve determined a cut-off OHL score for severely deleterious child OHBs, and Chi-square analyses assessed the association with the cut-off.
resultsThe mean maternal ThREALD-30 was 23.7 (SD = 5.0), showing a strong positive correlation with oral health knowledge (r = 0.81, P < .001) and associations with low education and family income (P < .001). Logistic regression showed that lower ThREALD-30 levels were associated with poor child OHBs, including nighttime feeding, sugary bottle feeding, and no oral cleaning (P < .05). ThREALD-30 score ≤21 related to severely deleterious child OHBs.
conclusionLower maternal OHL was strongly associated with poor child OHBs, with a ThREALD-30 score ≤21 indicating a high risk of caries. CLINICAL RELEVANCE: ThREALD-30 may be a useful screening tool for assessing mothers with young children at risk of early childhood caries.
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