Journal article
The interactive effects of oral health literacy and acculturation on dental care use among Hispanic adults
Journal of public health dentistry, Vol.82(3), pp.295-302
05/29/2022
DOI: 10.1111/jphd.12529
PMCID: PMC9546387
PMID: 35644999
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Abstract
Objective
Assess whether there is an interactive effect between oral health literacy and acculturation on dental care use for Hispanic adults.
Methods
Self-identifying Hispanic adults participated in this observational study (N = 338). Oral health literacy (low vs. high) was measured using the Comprehensive Measure of Oral Health Knowledge (CMOHK). Acculturation (low vs. high) was measured using the Short Acculturation Scale for Hispanics (SASH) and operationalized a second way by the language in which the survey was completed (English or Spanish). The outcome was dental care use in the past year (yes/no). Confounder-adjusted modified Poisson regression models were run to generate risk ratios (RR) and to test the hypothesis that participants with high oral health literacy and high acculturation would be more likely to have used dental care in the past year than participants with low oral health literacy and low acculturation.
Results
About 65% of participants used dental care in the past year. The final models failed to show that participants with high oral health literacy and high acculturation were more likely to have used dental care than other participants. However, in the language proxy interaction model, participants with high oral health literacy and low acculturation were significantly more likely to have used dental care than participants with low oral health literacy and low acculturation.
Conclusion
There may be an interaction between oral health literacy and acculturation when modeling dental care use for Hispanic adults that should be further explored.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The interactive effects of oral health literacy and acculturation on dental care use among Hispanic adults
- Creators
- Daisy Patiño Nguyen - University of WashingtonMichelle R. McQuistan - University of IowaFang Qian - University of IowaMarcela Hernández - University of IowaMark D. Macek - University of Maryland, BaltimoreDonald L. Chi - University of Washington
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of public health dentistry, Vol.82(3), pp.295-302
- DOI
- 10.1111/jphd.12529
- PMID
- 35644999
- PMCID
- PMC9546387
- NLM abbreviation
- J Public Health Dent
- ISSN
- 0022-4006
- eISSN
- 1752-7325
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Grant note
- DOI: 10.13039/100009633, name: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, award: P2C HD042828; DOI: 10.13039/100000072, name: National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, award: 1U01DE027629‐01A1S1
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/29/2022
- Academic Unit
- Preventive and Community Dentistry; Public Policy Center (Archive); Family Dentistry; Dental Research
- Record Identifier
- 9984283714302771
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