Oral Health Initiative, Center for Reproduction and Population Health Studies, Nigerian Institute of Medical Research, Lagos, Nigeria.
Department of Nursing Science, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.
BMC Oral Health. 2024 Aug 21;24(1):971. doi: 10.1186/s12903-024-04728-2.
Oral health care behaviors during pregnancy affects maternal and child health outcomes. This scoping review sought to map the existing literature on the oral healthcare behaviors of pregnant women in Nigeria.
PubMed, Science Direct, Web of Science, EBSCOHOST, Sabinet, African Index Medicus, and Scopus data based were searched in August 2023. Articles with reports on the oral health behavior of pregnant women in Nigeria, published in English in peer review were included in the review. Articles whose full lengths could not be accessed, and commentaries on studies, and letters to the editor were also excluded. Data on authors and year of publication of the study, study location, study objective, study design, methodological approach for data collection, and study outcomes were extracted and descriptively synthesized.
The search yielded a total of 595 articles of which 573 were unique. Only 21 articles were left after titles and abstracts screening and only 18 articles met the eligibility criteria. The proportion of pregnant women had utilized dental services ranged from 4 to 62.9%, the use of toothbrush and toothpaste ranged from 59.6 to 99.3%, twice daily tooth brushing ranged from 5.2 to 66.9%, and the use of toothbrush among pregnant women in the studies varies from 70.9 to 100%. Chewing stick was used by 0.1-27.7% of study participants. Dental problems such as caries, pain, swollen gums, and excessive salivation were reasons for seeking dental care. We identified individual, structural, and behavioral factors, including myths as barriers for dental service utilization.
This scoping review shows that dental service utilization by pregnant women in Nigeria is poor and mainly due to curative than preventive needs. Oral health behaviours also need to be improved through tailored oral health education accessible to pregnant women in Nigeria.
孕妇的口腔保健行为会影响母婴健康结局。本范围综述旨在绘制尼日利亚孕妇口腔保健行为的现有文献图谱。
2023 年 8 月，检索了 PubMed、Science Direct、Web of Science、EBSCOHOST、Sabinet、African Index Medicus 和 Scopus 数据库。纳入了报告尼日利亚孕妇口腔保健行为的英文同行评审文章。本综述排除了无法获取全文的文章、对研究的评论文章和给编辑的信件。提取并描述性综合了作者和研究发表年份、研究地点、研究目的、研究设计、数据收集的方法学方法以及研究结果。
搜索共产生了 595 篇文章，其中 573 篇是唯一的。经过标题和摘要筛选后，只剩下 21 篇文章，只有 18 篇文章符合入选标准。利用牙科服务的孕妇比例从 4%到 62.9%不等，使用牙刷和牙膏的比例从 59.6%到 99.3%不等，每天刷牙两次的比例从 5.2%到 66.9%不等，研究中孕妇使用牙刷的比例从 70.9%到 100%不等。咀嚼棒的使用比例为 0.1%到 27.7%。龋齿、疼痛、牙龈肿胀和过度流涎等牙科问题是寻求牙科护理的原因。我们确定了个人、结构和行为因素，包括神话，这些都是阻碍牙科服务利用的因素。
本范围综述表明，尼日利亚孕妇对牙科服务的利用率很低，主要是因为治疗性需求而非预防性需求。还需要通过针对尼日利亚孕妇的定制口腔健康教育来改善口腔健康行为。
