Bolin A K, Bolin A, Jansson L, Calltorp J
Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Swed Dent J. 1997;21(1-2):25-40.
"Children's Dental Health in Europe" is a collaborative study of a total of 3200 children, comprising samples of 5- and 12-year-old children from eight EU-countries [Belgium, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Scotland (United Kingdom), Spain and Sweden] who have undergone clinical examination by well calibrated dentists. This study analyses the influence of a number of sociodemographic factors on the dental health of the actual children. Father's and/or mother's occupational status was used to determine the social class of the family, after construction of a family-social class variable, SocFam, and the accuracy of this variable was tested. In 15 of the 16 samples, both treatment provided and unmet treatment need were higher in children from low social class. The treatment need in children from low social class was significantly greater in the Belgium, German, Greek and Italian 5-year-old samples. The differences in both treatment need and treatment already received for children from high respectively low social class were significant in the Scottish and Spanish 12-year-old samples. Taking into account the total material of 1600 children in each age-group, risk indicators for caries, identified by logistic and multiple regression analyses, were social class of the family, the mother's smoking habits, and in the 5-year-olds the number of siblings.
《欧洲儿童口腔健康》是一项针对总计3200名儿童开展的合作研究，研究样本包括来自八个欧盟国家（比利时、德国、希腊、爱尔兰、意大利、苏格兰（英国）、西班牙和瑞典）的5岁和12岁儿童，这些儿童均接受了校准良好的牙医的临床检查。本研究分析了一些社会人口统计学因素对这些儿童口腔健康的影响。在构建了家庭社会阶层变量SocFam之后，用父亲和/或母亲的职业地位来确定家庭的社会阶层，并对该变量的准确性进行了测试。在16个样本中的15个样本中，来自低社会阶层的儿童接受的治疗以及未满足的治疗需求都更高。在比利时、德国、希腊和意大利的5岁儿童样本中，来自低社会阶层的儿童的治疗需求显著更高。在苏格兰和西班牙的12岁儿童样本中，来自高社会阶层和低社会阶层的儿童在治疗需求和已接受治疗方面的差异均显著。考虑到每个年龄组1600名儿童的全部数据，通过逻辑回归和多元回归分析确定的龋齿风险指标包括家庭社会阶层、母亲的吸烟习惯，以及在5岁儿童中兄弟姐妹的数量。
