Rory Meyers College of Nursing, New York University, NY, USA.
Department of Sociology, University of Hawaii at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, USA.
Res Aging. 2020 Jun-Jul;42(5-6):186-195. doi: 10.1177/0164027520912493. Epub 2020 Mar 20.
This study aims to examine the associations among immigrant status, resilience, and perceived oral health for Chinese American older adults in Hawaii.
Data derived from 430 Chinese American adults aged 55 years and older residing in Honolulu, HI. We compared the self-rated oral health and oral health problems between U.S.-born Chinese Americans and foreign-born Chinese Americans by using ordered logistic regression and ordinary least squares regression models.
Findings suggest that immigrant status and lower levels of resilience are associated with poorer self-rated oral health and more oral health problems for Chinese American older adults in Hawaii. Resilience is more strongly associated with self-rated oral health for U.S.-born Chinese American than for foreign-born Chinese Americans, but this pattern was not evident for oral health problems.
Older Chinese American immigrants in Hawaii are disadvantaged in terms of their oral health. Understanding their susceptibilities may lead to targeted interventions.
本研究旨在探讨夏威夷美籍华人老年人的移民身份、适应力和口腔健康感知之间的关联。
数据来自 430 名居住在夏威夷檀香山的 55 岁及以上的美籍华人。我们通过有序逻辑回归和普通最小二乘法回归模型比较了美国出生的美籍华人和外国出生的美籍华人的自我报告的口腔健康和口腔健康问题。
研究结果表明,移民身份和适应力水平较低与夏威夷美籍华人老年人的自我报告口腔健康较差和更多的口腔健康问题相关。适应力与美国出生的美籍华人的自我报告口腔健康的关联更强,而与外国出生的美籍华人的关联则不明显,但这种模式在口腔健康问题上并不明显。
夏威夷的老年美籍华人移民在口腔健康方面处于不利地位。了解他们的易感性可能会导致有针对性的干预措施。