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Predisposing, enabling, and need characteristics of dental services utilization among socially deprived schoolchildren
Author(s) -
Maffioletti Fabíola,
Vettore Mario Vianna,
Rebelo Maria,
Herkrath Fernando,
Queiroz Adriana,
Herkrath Ana P.,
Pereira Juliana,
Rebelo Vieira Janete
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of public health dentistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.64
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1752-7325
pISSN - 0022-4006
DOI - 10.1111/jphd.12349
Subject(s) - socioeconomic status , attendance , medicine , structural equation modeling , test (biology) , family medicine , environmental health , population , economics , biology , paleontology , statistics , mathematics , economic growth
Objectives To test the relationship of predisposing, enabling and need characteristics with dental services utilization and pattern of dental attendance among 12‐year‐old schoolchildren living in a socially deprived urban area. Methods A cross‐sectional study was carried out involving 358 children enrolled in public schools located in a deprived area of the city of Manaus, Brazil. Predisposing, enabling, and need characteristics were selected according to Andersen's behavioral conceptual model. Self‐completed questionnaires were used to collect the predisposing characteristics (child's gender, sense of coherence, self‐esteem, oral health beliefs). Parents or guardians provided data on enabling characteristics, including dental health insurance and socioeconomic status. Evaluated need characteristics included oral clinical status assessed through dental examinations conducted by five calibrated examiners. Structural equation modeling was used to test the predictors of dental services utilization and pattern of dental attendance. Results Predisposing characteristics, including male gender and low parents/guardians sense of coherence predicted poor dental services utilization and inadequate pattern of dental attendance, respectively. Low socioeconomic status and poor oral clinical status were linked to poor dental services utilization and worse children's pattern of dental attendance. Conclusions The present findings suggest that predisposing (child's gender and parental sense of coherence), enabling (socioeconomic conditions) and evaluated need characteristics (oral clinical status) are associated with dental services utilization among children.