Gayatri Rara Warih, Deniati Ema Novita, Saub Roslan Bin
Department of Public Health, Faculty of Sports Science, Universitas Negeri Malang, Malang, East Java, Indonesia.
Department of Community Oral Health and Clinical Prevention, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
J Public Health Afr. 2022 Dec 7;13(Suppl 2):2414. doi: 10.4081/jphia.2022.2414.
Dental and oral health are the main indicators of health, well-being, and quality of life. The concept of Oral Health Literacy (OHL) has become important because it regards individual capacity to understand and use dental information to transform into oral health behaviours. Thus, the aim of this study was to discover and describe the OHL status of adults in Malang City and its relationship with sociodemographic status so that it can be used as a basis for making policy. This study used observational analytical study design involving 450 respondents in Malang by quota random sampling method. The data was collected by the self-administered 29-item HeLD-ID (Health Literacy in Dentistry Indonesian Version) questionnaire. The study resulted that the overall HeLD-ID score was 3.68±0.69. The HeLDID score significant difference was affected by sex (0.05) and the other sociodemographic determinants (age, last education, and income) were not. However, there were significant differences of HeLD scores in communication domain (0.05) affected by age, sex, and income.
牙齿和口腔健康是健康、幸福和生活质量的主要指标。口腔健康素养(OHL)的概念变得很重要,因为它关乎个人理解和运用牙齿健康信息并转化为口腔健康行为的能力。因此,本研究的目的是发现并描述玛琅市成年人的口腔健康素养状况及其与社会人口学状况的关系,以便将其作为制定政策的依据。本研究采用观察性分析研究设计,通过配额随机抽样方法,对玛琅市的450名受访者进行了调查。数据通过自行填写的包含29个条目的HeLD-ID(印度尼西亚语版牙科健康素养)问卷收集。研究结果显示,HeLD-ID的总体得分是3.68±0.69。HeLD-ID得分的显著差异受性别影响(0.05),而其他社会人口学决定因素(年龄、最高学历和收入)则没有影响。然而,在沟通领域,HeLD得分受年龄、性别和收入影响存在显著差异(0.05)。