埃塞俄比亚南部资源有限环境下学龄儿童龋齿患病率及其与营养状况的关系

Prevalence of dental caries and relation with nutritional status among school-age children in resource limited setting of southern Ethiopia.

机构信息

Areka Town Health Office, Wolaita Zone Health Department, Wolaita Sodo, Ethiopia.

School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences and Medicine, Wolaita Sodo University, Wolaita Sodo, Ethiopia.

出版信息

BMC Oral Health. 2023 Feb 10;23(1):84. doi: 10.1186/s12903-023-02786-6.

DOI:10.1186/s12903-023-02786-6

PMID:36765339

原文链接:https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9912513/

Abstract

BACKGROUND

Globally, dental caries appears a major public health problem and a widespread non -communicable disease. It is more prevalent among children school-age children (6-12 years), However, there are few studies that correlate dental caries with nutritional status. Thus, this study aims to determine the relation of dental caries with nutritional status among school-age children at resource limited setting of southern Ethiopia.

METHODOLOGY

A community-based cross sectional study was employed on randomly selected 761 school-age children of Areka town. Data were collected by face-to-face interviewer-administered questionnaire and clinical assessment of dental caries. After that, the collected data were entered into Epi data 3.2.1 and exported to SPSS 20 for further analysis. On the other hand, bivariate and multiple logistic regression analyses were used to identify the association of dependent and independent variables. p Value < 0.05 was considered to declare a result as statistically significant.

RESULTS

Prevalence of dental caries among school-age children was 15.6% (95% CI 13.0-18.5). In technical senses, 4.3% (95% CI 2.9-5.8%) of children were underweight and 14.2% (95% CI 11.7-16.6%) were overweight. However, it has been unfolded that the relationship between dental caries and nutritional status was not statistically significant with a p value (p = 0.32). Factors associated with dental caries were educational status of a mother AOR 3.14, (95% CI 1.03-9.56), not cleaning teeth AOR 7.70, (95% CI 4.00-14.85), sugared coffee drinking AOR 3.22, (95% CI 1.68-6.18.0), sweet food consumption AOR 4.19, (95% CI 1.76-9.96) and non-consuming milk AOR 5.66 ( 95% CI 1.49-21.49).

CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION

Dental caries at south Ethiopia were low compared to WHO's reports on oral health on school-age children. Tooth cleaning habit, parental education, sweet food consumption and milk consumption are associated factors. Therefore, behavioral intervention on dental hygiene and dietary practices are mandatory for school-age children.

摘要

背景

在全球范围内，龋齿似乎是一个主要的公共卫生问题，也是一种广泛存在的非传染性疾病。它在学龄儿童（6-12 岁）中更为普遍。然而，很少有研究将龋齿与营养状况相关联。因此，本研究旨在确定在埃塞俄比亚南部资源有限的环境中，龋齿与学龄儿童营养状况之间的关系。

方法

采用社区为基础的横断面研究，随机选择阿雷卡镇的 761 名学龄儿童。通过面对面访谈式问卷和龋齿临床评估收集数据。之后，将收集到的数据输入 EpiData 3.2.1，并导出到 SPSS 20 进行进一步分析。另一方面，采用单变量和多变量逻辑回归分析来确定因变量和自变量之间的关联。p 值<0.05 被认为是统计学上显著的结果。

结果

学龄儿童龋齿的患病率为 15.6%（95%CI 13.0-18.5）。从技术角度来看，4.3%（95%CI 2.9-5.8%）的儿童体重不足，14.2%（95%CI 11.7-16.6%）超重。然而，研究表明，龋齿与营养状况之间的关系没有统计学意义，p 值（p=0.32）。与龋齿相关的因素包括母亲的教育程度 AOR 3.14（95%CI 1.03-9.56）、不刷牙 AOR 7.70（95%CI 4.00-14.85）、喝咖啡加糖 AOR 3.22（95%CI 1.68-6.18）、食用甜食 AOR 4.19（95%CI 1.76-9.96）和不饮用牛奶 AOR 5.66（95%CI 1.49-21.49）。