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Conference Paper: Relationship between caregivers'reading habits and their child’s oral health
Title | Relationship between caregivers'reading habits and their child’s oral health |
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Authors | |
Keywords | Behavioral science Children and Outcome (Health) |
Issue Date | 2013 |
Publisher | Sage Publications, Inc. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.sagepub.com/journalsProdDesc.nav?prodId=Journal201925 |
Citation | The 2nd Meeting of the International Association of Dental Research - Asia Pacific Region (IADR-APR), Bangkok, Thailand, 21-23 August 2013. In Journal of Dental Research, 2013, v. 92 Special Issue B: abstract no. 422 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Objective: To describe the relationship between caregiver’s multilingual reading habits and the oral health status of pre-school children in Hong Kong
Method: A random sample of three hundred and one child/parent dyads was recruited from the kindergartens in Hong Kong Island. Eligibility criteria included the caregivers who were able to speak Cantonese and read traditional Chinese script. The caregiver’s self-reports of socio-demographics and multilingual reading habits were collected. Two locally-developed and validated oral health literacy assessment tasks, Hong Kong Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Dentistry-30 (HKREALD-30) and Hong Kong Oral Health Literacy Assessment Task for Paediatric Dentistry (HKOHLAT-P), were administered to caregivers to assess their oral health literacy levels. Children’s oral health status was assessed [dental caries experience- dmft and oral hygiene status- Visible Plaque Index (VPI)]
Results: The results ascertained that the caregivers’ practice of reading print Chinese was significantly associated with the caregivers’ oral health literacy scores (p<0.001). Moreover, the caregivers’ English reading habits were more significantly associated with the child’s dmft (p<0.001) compared to that of the Chinese reading habits (p=.001).
Conclusion: Reading texts in an additional language (i.e. English in this case) is significantly associated with child’s oral health status, indicating that Caregivers’ multilingual literacy—especially involving a lingua franca for medical and health knowledge, can be a protective factor for child health. This abstract is based on research that was funded entirely or partially by an outside source: Research Grants Council of Hong Kong (Ref: 760009) |
Description | Conference Theme: We are the Future Poster Presentation Session 22: P2 |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/192582 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 5.7 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.909 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Parthasarathy, DS | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Bridges, SM | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | McGrath, CPJ | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Yiu, CKY | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Wong, HM | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Au, TKF | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-11-18T05:06:49Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2013-11-18T05:06:49Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2013 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | The 2nd Meeting of the International Association of Dental Research - Asia Pacific Region (IADR-APR), Bangkok, Thailand, 21-23 August 2013. In Journal of Dental Research, 2013, v. 92 Special Issue B: abstract no. 422 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0022-0345 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/192582 | - |
dc.description | Conference Theme: We are the Future | - |
dc.description | Poster Presentation | - |
dc.description | Session 22: P2 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Objective: To describe the relationship between caregiver’s multilingual reading habits and the oral health status of pre-school children in Hong Kong Method: A random sample of three hundred and one child/parent dyads was recruited from the kindergartens in Hong Kong Island. Eligibility criteria included the caregivers who were able to speak Cantonese and read traditional Chinese script. The caregiver’s self-reports of socio-demographics and multilingual reading habits were collected. Two locally-developed and validated oral health literacy assessment tasks, Hong Kong Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Dentistry-30 (HKREALD-30) and Hong Kong Oral Health Literacy Assessment Task for Paediatric Dentistry (HKOHLAT-P), were administered to caregivers to assess their oral health literacy levels. Children’s oral health status was assessed [dental caries experience- dmft and oral hygiene status- Visible Plaque Index (VPI)] Results: The results ascertained that the caregivers’ practice of reading print Chinese was significantly associated with the caregivers’ oral health literacy scores (p<0.001). Moreover, the caregivers’ English reading habits were more significantly associated with the child’s dmft (p<0.001) compared to that of the Chinese reading habits (p=.001). Conclusion: Reading texts in an additional language (i.e. English in this case) is significantly associated with child’s oral health status, indicating that Caregivers’ multilingual literacy—especially involving a lingua franca for medical and health knowledge, can be a protective factor for child health. This abstract is based on research that was funded entirely or partially by an outside source: Research Grants Council of Hong Kong (Ref: 760009) | - |
dc.language | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | Sage Publications, Inc. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.sagepub.com/journalsProdDesc.nav?prodId=Journal201925 | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Journal of Dental Research | en_US |
dc.rights | Journal of Dental Research. Copyright © Sage Publications, Inc. | - |
dc.subject | Behavioral science | - |
dc.subject | Children and Outcome (Health) | - |
dc.title | Relationship between caregivers'reading habits and their child’s oral health | en_US |
dc.type | Conference_Paper | en_US |
dc.identifier.email | Bridges, SM: sbridges@hku.hk | en_US |
dc.identifier.email | McGrath, CPJ: mcgrathc@hkucc.hku.hk | en_US |
dc.identifier.email | Yiu, CKY: ckyyiu@hkucc.hku.hk | en_US |
dc.identifier.email | Wong, HM: wonghmg@hkucc.hku.hk | en_US |
dc.identifier.email | Au, TKF: terryau@hku.hk | en_US |
dc.identifier.authority | Bridges, SM=rp00048 | en_US |
dc.identifier.authority | McGrath, CPJ=rp00037 | en_US |
dc.identifier.authority | Yiu, CKY=rp00018 | en_US |
dc.identifier.authority | Wong, HM=rp00042 | en_US |
dc.identifier.authority | Au, TKF=rp00580 | en_US |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 226812 | en_US |
dc.identifier.volume | 92 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issue | Special Issue B: abstract no. 422 | en_US |
dc.publisher.place | United States | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0022-0345 | - |