Dieng Serigne Ndame, Kanouté Aïda, Lombrail Pierre, Diouf Massamba, Azogui-Levy Sylvie
Department of Odontology, Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar, Senegal.
Health Education and Promotion Laboratory, Sorbonne University of Paris Cité, Bobigny, France.
J Public Health Afr. 2022 Jul 26;13(2):2114. doi: 10.4081/jphia.2022.2114.
Senegal having a significant prevalence of socially differentiated oral diseases, oral health literacy (OHL), an individual and social resource, should be considered alongside a remedial response. This work aimed to analyze women's OHL characteristics. A cross-sectional study on 315 women in Pikine County was carried out, using the Oral Health Literacy-Adult Questionnaire (OHL-AQ) for the OHL data collection and a questionnaire for the women's socioeconomic characteristics data. These women had an OHL average score of 6.5±3.1 and a median of 6. Among them, 56.5% had a seemingly low OHL level, a little over 68.9% had a score above the median as regards the "listening, communication and understanding" aspect, 58.4% to "decision making", 55.2% to "understanding numbers" and 33% to "reading and understanding". According to a multivariate analysis, secondary and higher educated women (p<0.001) with an active social network (p<0.023), in a wealthy household (p<0.0001) and of nuclear household type (p<0.036) had a higher OHL level. Women in Pikine have low OHL and are from working- class households. Therefore, oral health policies must take into account the women's social network contribution to the OHL improvement.
塞内加尔社会分化的口腔疾病患病率很高，口腔健康素养作为一种个人和社会资源，应与补救措施一并考虑。这项工作旨在分析女性的口腔健康素养特征。对皮金县的315名女性进行了一项横断面研究，使用口腔健康素养-成人问卷（OHL-AQ）收集口腔健康素养数据，并使用一份问卷收集女性的社会经济特征数据。这些女性的口腔健康素养平均得分为6.5±3.1，中位数为6。其中，56.5%的女性口腔健康素养水平似乎较低，在“倾听、沟通和理解”方面，略高于68.9%的女性得分高于中位数，“决策”方面为58.4%，“理解数字”方面为55.2%，“阅读和理解”方面为33%。根据多变量分析，受过中等和高等教育的女性（p<0.001）、拥有活跃社交网络的女性（p<0.023）、来自富裕家庭的女性（p<0.0001）以及核心家庭类型的女性（p<0.036）口腔健康素养水平较高。皮金县的女性口腔健康素养较低，且来自工人阶级家庭。因此，口腔健康政策必须考虑女性的社交网络对提高口腔健康素养的贡献。
