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September 25-26, 2017 | Atlanta, USA
2
nd
World Congress on
Medical Sociology & Community Health
Volume 7, Issue 4 (Suppl)
J Community Med Health Educ, an open access journal
ISSN:2161-0711
Medical Sociology 2017
September 25-26, 2017
ORALHEALTH LITERACYAND PSYCHOSOCIAL FACTORS OF CHILD CARE GIVER
Gupta M
a
and
Hossain I
a
a
NIPSOM, Bangladesh
Statement of the problem:
Oral health literacy is a new determinant of preventive dental behavior. Although OHL represents one's
ability to understand and process relevant oral health information, other characteristics may modify one's behavior resulting decisions
or actions. Psychosocial factors play an important role regarding this decision making of health behavior. Care givers are responsible
for a wide range of issues including health promotion, and disease prevention for the children. Children requires more assistance with
oral health behaviors, thus their oral health outcomes are more tightly linked to their care giver’s behaviors. This study was carried
out to assess the Oral Health Literacy status and to evaluate the role of oral health literacy and psychosocial factors as a determinant
of oral health among child caregivers.
Methodology:
A cross sectional study was conducted in Mohammadpur Preparatory School and Mohammadpur model school of
Dhaka city through face to face interview by using semi structured questionnaire among 370 respondents. Oral Health Behavior
was measured by 15 additional question. OHL was measured by the Oral Health Literacy Adults Questionnaire (OHL-AQ) which
was tested in a pilot study and showed to be reliable and valid (
Naghibi Sistani et al.,
2013). It contains 17 items in four sections
Reading comprehension comprises 6 questions, Numeracy comprises 4 questions assessing ability, Listening comprises 2 questions
and Decision-making comprises 5 questions.
Findings:
About 46.8% were in age group of 31-35 years, and 83.2% were housewife. Majority of the care giver 64.4% had adequate
oral health literacy, 28.6% had marginal literacy about oral health and 7.0% of the care giver’s had inadequate literacy. Young aged care
givers, those who have adequate oral health literacy and housewives in occupation were brushed their child teeth twice a day more
than other care giver. High care giver’s activation measure knowledge and confidence showed more dental visit by them and high
CAM-skill showed more brushing frequency twice a day.
Conclusion & Significance:
Care giver’s psychosocial factors influenced their oral health behavior despite of having adequate oral
health literacy. Future studies should consider a range of these psychosocial factors that has not been studied more, but have shown
to be important psychosocial determinants of health behaviors. Differential health education program on Oral Health Literacy for the
caregivers through using BCC materials and methods could be organized.
Biography
Mithun Gupta was a student of Masters of Public Health in NIPSOM, she has been involved with the research projects of social issues of health and also working
in the Mayer hashi-II project as a Assistant programme officer. She is involved with research team of Mayer Hasi-II project funded by USAID too.
guptamithun327@gmail.comGupta M et al., J Community Med Health Educ 2017, 7:4 (Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2161-0711-C1-027