Martinez Lourdes S, Devi Aachal, Maupomé Gerardo, Schiaffino Melody K, Ayala Guadalupe X, Malcarne Vanessa L, Hoeft Kristin S, Finlayson Tracy L
School of Communication, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, USA.
San Diego, Joint Doctoral Program in Public Health, The San Diego State University/University of California, San Diego, California, USA.
J Health Commun. 2025;30(1-3):13-28. doi: 10.1080/10810730.2024.2433528. Epub 2024 Dec 24.
Using a social network approach, we characterize who Mexican-origin young adults perceive as social support sources for oral health behaviors and provide additional validity evidence for Oral Health Behavior Social Support Scales (OHBSS). From April to September 2022, we gathered social network data from 62 Mexican-origin adults (21-40 years old) through Zoom interviews about their perceived received social support for three oral health behaviors (toothbrushing, flossing, and obtaining dental care) from three potential sources of support (family, health providers, and others/friends). Overall, we found similar results across all three oral health behaviors. We also found evidence for convergent and discriminant validity of OHBSS scales using social network measures. Implications of findings are discussed.
我们采用社交网络方法，刻画了墨西哥裔美国年轻人将谁视为口腔健康行为的社会支持来源，并为口腔健康行为社会支持量表（OHBSS）提供了额外的效度证据。2022年4月至9月，我们通过Zoom访谈收集了62名墨西哥裔美国成年人（21至40岁）的社交网络数据，内容涉及他们从三个潜在支持来源（家人、医疗服务提供者以及其他/朋友）获得的关于三种口腔健康行为（刷牙、使用牙线和接受牙科护理）的社会支持情况。总体而言，我们在所有三种口腔健康行为中都发现了相似的结果。我们还利用社交网络测量方法找到了OHBSS量表的收敛效度和区分效度的证据。本文讨论了研究结果的意义。
