Characteristics of oral health literacy in Senegal: A cross-sectional study among women in the Department of Pikine
J. Public Health Africa (Online)
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13(2): 1-6, 2022. tables
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ABSTRACT
Senegal having a significant prevalence of socially differentiated oral diseases, oral health literacy (OHL), an individual and social resource, should be considered alongside a remedial response. This work aimed to analyze women's OHL characteristics. A cross-sectional study on 315 women in Pikine County was carried out, using the Oral Health Literacy-Adult Questionnaire (OHL-AQ) for the OHL data collection and a questionnaire for the women's socioeconomic characteristics data. These women had an OHL average score of 6.5±3.1 and a median of 6. Among them, 56.5% had a seemingly low OHL level, a little over 68.9% had a score above the median as regards the "listening, communication and understanding" aspect, 58.4% to "decision making", 55.2% to "understanding numbers" and 33% to "reading and understanding". According to a multivariate analysis, secondary and higher educated women (p<0.001) with an active social network (p<0.023), in a wealthy household (p<0.0001) and of nuclear household type (p<0.036) had a higher OHL level. Women in Pikine have low OHL and are from working- class households. Therefore, oral health policies must take into account the women's social network contribution to the OHL improvement.
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AIM (Africa)
Main subject:
Oral Health
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Health Literacy
Type of study:
Observational study
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Prevalence study
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Prognostic study
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Risk factors
Limits:
Humans
Country/Region as subject:
Africa
Language:
English
Journal:
J. Public Health Africa (Online)
Year:
2022
Type:
Article
Institution/Affiliation country:
Department of Odontology, Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar/SN
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Health Education and Promotion Laboratory, Sorbonne University of Paris Cité/FR
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Health Education and Promotion Laboratory, UFR of Odontology, Paris 7 University/FR
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