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Community periodontal treatment needs in South Korea
Author(s) -
Lee MY,
Chang SJ,
Kim CB,
Chung WG,
Choi EM,
Kim NH
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
international journal of dental hygiene
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.674
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1601-5037
pISSN - 1601-5029
DOI - 10.1111/idh.12102
Subject(s) - medicine , logistic regression , odds ratio , confidence interval , odds , demography , national health and nutrition examination survey , multivariate analysis , gerontology , environmental health , population , pathology , sociology
Abstract Objectives This study aimed to assess the relationship between socio‐economic factors and community periodontal treatment needs in Korea. Methods Data were obtained from the year 2009 Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Our analysis included 7510 survey participants over the age of 19 years. To assess the relationship between socio‐economic factors and the need for periodontal scaling, we performed multivariate logistic regression analyses for data with a complex sampling structure. PASW statistics 19.0 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA) was used to perform the statistical analyses, and the results were expressed as odds ratios ( OR ) with corresponding 95% confidence intervals ( CI s). Results A very high percentage of Korean adults required periodontal scaling (71.5%). After adjusting for sex, age, and socio‐economic factors, the need for periodontal scaling was associated with low levels of education ( OR : 1.41, 95% CI : 1.03–1.93), low incomes ( OR : 1.27, 95% CI : 1.01–1.60), employment as a service and sales worker ( OR : 1.39, 95% CI : 1.10–1.77), and employment as a manual worker ( OR : 1.31, 95% CI : 1.02–1.69). Conclusions In South Korea, the need for periodontal scaling was associated with socio‐economic factors, such as low levels of education, low incomes, employment as a service and sales worker and employment as a manual worker. Consequently, clinical and community dental hygienists should consider adults with these risk factors as belonging to high‐priority subgroups to whom they should respond first.