Deolia Shravani G, Khare Mrunmayee V, Arora Ritika P, Chikhale Rana N, Korde Revti D, Reche Amit M
Department of Public Health Dentistry, Sharad Pawar Dental College and Hospital, DMIMS, Wardha, Maharashtra, India.
J Family Med Prim Care. 2020 Jan 28;9(1):141-146. doi: 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_636_19. eCollection 2020 Jan.
Before choosing/visiting any dental facility for their treatment, patients consider several factors. These factors may be related to the patient or service provider. The health-seeking behavior of a society defines how health services are used.
To assess the health seeking behavior of patients with premalignant lesions.
A cross sectional study using questionnaire was done among the patients who consulted in the Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, of age 18 and above suffering from precancerous lesions. The questionnaire included 25 close-ended questions which collected information about the demographic details, oral hygiene habits, oral health issues, deleterious habits. The responses were either on dichotomous scale (yes and no) or on the frequency habits. A total of 218 subjects were included in the study. The data were analyzed using the Chi-square test. The acceptable level of significance was reduced to < 0.05.
Slightly over 50% of study participants visited the dentist for their dental problems. Most of the participants visited dental clinic whenever needed. Maximum positive health seeking behavior is seen in fourth and fifth decade and minimum seen in second and third decade.
The oral premalignant lesions have high chances of transformation into malignancies. The progression of these lesions can be prevented by stopping the progression at an early stage and thus instilling positive health seeking behavior serves as an important key to it.
在选择/前往任何牙科机构进行治疗之前，患者会考虑多个因素。这些因素可能与患者或服务提供者有关。一个社会的健康寻求行为决定了健康服务的使用方式。
评估癌前病变患者的健康寻求行为。
对在口腔医学与放射科就诊的18岁及以上患有癌前病变的患者进行了一项使用问卷的横断面研究。问卷包括25个封闭式问题，收集了有关人口统计学细节、口腔卫生习惯、口腔健康问题、有害习惯的信息。回答采用二分制量表（是和否）或频率习惯。共有218名受试者纳入研究。使用卡方检验分析数据。可接受的显著性水平降至<0.05。
略超过50%的研究参与者因牙齿问题去看牙医。大多数参与者在需要时会去牙科诊所。在第四和第五个十年中观察到最大的积极健康寻求行为，在第二和第三个十年中观察到最小的行为。
口腔癌前病变有很高的恶变几率。通过在早期阶段阻止这些病变的进展可以预防其发展，因此灌输积极的健康寻求行为是实现这一目标的重要关键。
