Influencing factors on oral health behavior and dental clinic use in industrial workers by Andersen model

Abstract

Objectives:The purpose of the study is to investigate the oral health and oral health beliefs in industrial workers and to analyze the influencing factors on dental health care utilization. Methods: The subjects were 280 adults from 16 to 64 years old in Seoul and Gyeonggi from June 20 to July 31, 2014, A self-reported questionnaire was completed after receiving informed consent. The independent variables consisted of predisposing, enabling, and need factors. The predisposing factors included gender, age, residence area, number of family. The enabling variables included monthly income, education, occupation, type of employment. The need factors included subjective oral health recognition and oral health belief model. These three variables had a direct and indirect influence on dental clinic use. The types of occupation were classified into desk duties, merchandizing and service duties technology and others by KSCO-6. Results: The relating factors to dental health care utilization were sex, oral health beliefs perceived benefits, perceived barriers, and self-efficacy. Female tended to have the higher oral health beliefs perceived benefits, perceived barriers(p<0.01), self-efficacy(p<0.05). Conclusions: Those who received frequent oral examination and health instruction tended to have a favorable impact on maintenance of oral health status and improvement in quality of life.

Factors Related to the Intention to Use Dental Care by Industrial Workers Due to COVID-19: Application of Anderson Model and Planned Behavior Theory

“…It comprises factors such as an individual's economic level or income level, occupational type, private insurance coverage, and residential area [29]. In a previous study, there was a difference in the frequency of toothbrushing three or more times a day depending on the occupational type of industrial workers [23]. In the case of economic activity, the number of private insurance policyholders is higher, and private insurance policyholders receive preventive dental care more frequently than those without insurance.…”

“…This study classified the participants' socio-economic characteristics into predisposing, enabling, and need factors based on the AM [22,23]. Based on the TPB, dental care use was classified into the following sub-categories: attitude, subjective norm, perceived behavior control, and intention to use dental care [24].…”

“…The socioeconomic characteristics of the participants based on the AM were composed of the following three sub-factors: predisposing factors (sex, age, marital status, and education level); enabling factors (occupation, number of private insurances, income level, working years, and experience of dental care use in the COVID-19 situation); and need factors (perceived subjective dental health, experience of oral pain, and gingival bleeding) [22,23]. The predisposing and enabling factors are categorical variables.…”

“…Accordingly, relevant factors should be analyzed by closely investigating the changes in dental care use to prepare for COVID-19 and other emerging infectious diseases. Recent studies related to domestic healthcare services use included patients with rheumatoid arthritis [22] and diabetes mellitus [23], but there are no studies investigating the factors affecting industrial workers' use of dental care services in Korea.…”

Effects of social support on oral health behavior: Serial multiple‐mediator model

“…Whereas policy strategies to promote OHB in the adult population have traditionally been through encouraging brushing and flossing practices at the individual level, a growing number of studies begin to explore the more distal and structural determinants of OHB (Vasiliou et al, 2016). The role of psychosocial factors in promoting OHB draws more interest from researchers, such as oral health beliefs (Im et al, 2015), job stress (Ghulam et al, 2018), social support (Khamrin et al, 2021) and perceived behavioral control (PBC) (Brein et al, 2016). Social support as a way to promote OHB received a lot of attention as it is easy to provide.…”