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Social Class and Oral Health. A comparison between the 1988 and 1998 Adult Oral Health Surveys

Social Class and Oral Health. A comparison between the 1988 and 1998 Adult Oral Health Surveys. Juan Gonzalez, Jimmy Steele, Nairn Wilson, Nora Donaldson. BACKGROUND. Fewer teeth is associated with… Poor dental attendance. (Sanders et al, 2006)

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Social Class and Oral Health. A comparison between the 1988 and 1998 Adult Oral Health Surveys

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  1. Social Class and Oral Health. A comparison between the 1988 and 1998 Adult Oral Health Surveys Juan Gonzalez, Jimmy Steele, Nairn Wilson, Nora Donaldson

  2. BACKGROUND Fewer teeth is associated with… Poor dental attendance. (Sanders et al, 2006) Low socio-economic group (Sakki et al, 1994) Increasing age(Todd & Lader, 1991)

  3. Regular Dental Attendance may be a factor contributing to the socio-economic gradient in oral health: Regular dental attendance is more prevalent in high socio-economic groups and is associated with better oral health outcomes, after adjustment for socio-economic status (SES). Barriers (i.e. attitudes and perceptions) Attitudes and perceptions include: anxiety, cost concerns, value placed on restored teeth, and beliefs regarding the importance of regular dental attendance Positive attitudes and perceptions (Barriers) about dental attendance are associated with better oral health and tend to be held by high-socio-economic groups.

  4. How these factors inter-relate? • Establishing the pathways between the various factors would improve the understanding of how… - demographic factors, - socio-economic status and - barriers to dental attendance impact on Regular Dental Attendance and on the number of sound teeth (NST).

  5. In the 1998 UK Adult Dental Health Survey (n=3800) Using Structural Equation Modeling: (Donaldson et al, JDR, Jan 2008) Found that the association between social class and the number of sound teeth (NST) SOCIAL CLASS NST Is partially explained by pathway: Barriers REGULAR ATTENDANCE

  6. 1998 UK Adult Oral Health Survey

  7. Aim of present study • In this study we examine the data on N=2210 participants from the 1988 UK Adult Oral Health Surveys to compare the effect of socio-economic status (SES) on oral health, between the two periods (1988 and 1998). • Particular attention given to differences in the model structures (pathways) of that relationship.

  8. Distribution of the number of sound teeth by decade of study. • NST ordinal with 3 categories • 1998: Continuous • Mean: 23.4 95% c.i. 23.1 to 23.6

  9. Distribution of the number of sound teeth by decade of study

  10. Distribution of Factors for both surveys

  11. Multiple Ordinal Regression for NST (1988)

  12. Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) • Pathways between the various predictors are explored. • Variables are analysed simultaneously in the sequence of their operating order, allowing the predictors to have both direct and indirect influences on the outcome. • SEM allows latent variables to be modelled, which reduces the likelihood of regression dilution (Der, 2001; Garson, 2004).

  13. Structural equation model (1988)

  14. Common Features 1988/1998 • There is a significant direct pathway from Social Class to NST. • There is a significant direct pathway from Regularity to NST. • No direct pathway from Barriers to Social Class: Barriers mediates the effect of Social Class on NST.

  15. The End Thanks

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