Perera I, Ekanayake L
Dental Institute, Ward Place, Colombo 7, Sri Lanka.
Community Dent Health. 2010 Mar;27(1):29-34.
to assess socio-economic inequalities in two perceived oral health outcomes namely perceived oral health status and perceived oral impacts among adolescents in Sri Lanka.
A cross-sectional study where the data where collected by means of structured questionnaires to the children and their parents.
A total 1,225 15-year-old adolescents attending state, private and international schools in the Colombo district of Sri Lanka.
Inverse social gradients in perceived oral health status and perceived oral impacts were observed in relation to six socioeconomic indicators in the bivariate analyses. Adolescents from lower social positions had significantly reported more oral impacts and had rated their oral health as poor. But it was mainly the indicators of family material affluence that emerged as significant predictors of perceived oral health outcomes in the logistic regression analyses.
The study demonstrates the existence of significant social gradients in perceived oral health outcomes among adolescents from a developing country. Further studies to assess causes of social gradients in perceived oral health outcomes are recommended.
评估斯里兰卡青少年在两种口腔健康感知结果方面的社会经济不平等情况，这两种结果分别是口腔健康状况感知和口腔影响感知。
一项横断面研究，通过向儿童及其父母发放结构化问卷来收集数据。
斯里兰卡科伦坡地区公立、私立和国际学校的1225名15岁青少年。
在双变量分析中，观察到口腔健康状况感知和口腔影响感知与六个社会经济指标之间存在反向社会梯度。社会地位较低的青少年报告的口腔影响明显更多，且将自己的口腔健康评为较差。但在逻辑回归分析中，主要是家庭物质富裕指标成为口腔健康感知结果的显著预测因素。
该研究表明，发展中国家青少年在口腔健康感知结果方面存在显著的社会梯度。建议进一步开展研究，以评估口腔健康感知结果中社会梯度的成因。
