Oral health services utilization among the rural population of western Rajasthan, India

Gupta, Saurabh; Ranjan, Vinayak; Rai, Shalu; Mathur, Hemant; Solanki, Jitender; Koppula, Sri Krishna

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“…Shravani et al 18 reported a prevalence of fear of dental procedures of 22.5% among women in central India while it was 16.5% in a study done in western region of India. 19 A study conducted in northern part of India reported that 31.5% of their respondents were fearful of dental procedures while the same was 9.1% in a study done in Southern India. 20,15 Previous literature have shown that fear of dental procedures among women is generally high.…”

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“…Similar findings were observed in studies done by Shravani et al (14.1%), Fotedar et al (10.6%), Gupta et al (26.2%) and Garcha et al (40%). [18][19][20]24 Dental care in India is primarily provided by the private sector which is largely unregulated. 25 Technological advances and improved materials have also contributed to the rising costs of oral health care.…”

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Oral health care-seeking behaviour and influencing factors among 18-34 years old women in Kochi, India

Nija

Gireesh

Mathew

et al. 2020

Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background: Oral health, though an integral part of general health, is accorded low priority and remains an issue of neglect. Women during their reproductive years suffer from various oral problems that warrant timely utilization of care. Understanding factors affecting health-seeking behavior is necessary. The objective of this study was to determine the personal level and system-level factors that affect utilization of oral health care among 18-34 year-old women visiting a dental health care facility.Methods: A cross-sectional questionnaire-based study was conducted among 18-34 year old women. Participants were recruited using convenience sampling from a tertiary dental health care facility. A Chi-square test was used to determine the association of sociodemographic variables on factors affecting the utilization of oral care.Results: A total of 194 responses were obtained. The mean age of study participants was 27.1±5.2 years. Around 62% of women suffered from multiple dental problems in the past year of which tooth decay and swelling of gums were most common. About 68% of them sought treatment with a dentist. Half of the respondents were themselves responsible for making health care decisions. 55% of the participants reported barriers in availing dental care. The cost of dental treatment, fear of pain, and lack of time were the most commonly reported barriers.Conclusions: Oral health-seeking behaviour among women was found to be good with regard to dental attendance. Personal level barriers were greater than system-level barriers in availing dental care.

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Oral health care-seeking behaviour and influencing factors among 18-34 years old women in Kochi, India

Nija

Gireesh

Mathew

et al. 2020

Int J Community Med Public Health

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“…This scenario can be justified by the fact that prevalence of self-medication among the marginalized is higher because of lack of awareness and ease of access to over-the-counter drugs. [16]…”

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“…In the studies done by Jain et al ., Tandon et al ., and Gupta et al ., most of their study population recommended setting up of a separate dental unit. [91416] Pewa et al . reported mobile dental clinic to be an affective adjunct or facility for answering the treatment needs of individuals with oral diseases and can also be affectively used for imparting oral health-care education to the needy groups of population.…”

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Oral health taking a back seat at primary health centers of Bangalore urban district, India – A situation analysis

Iyer

Krishnamurthy

Pathak

et al. 2019

J Family Med Prim Care

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Background: Even though a dramatic change in pattern of oral diseases has been observed at a global level, oral health equality still remains as a dream to achieve. Studies have documented disparities in delivery and utilisation of oral health services among urban, suburban, and rural regions of India. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to conduct a situation analysis at PHCs to understand resource availability and oral health seeking behavior from perspective of medical officers of Bangalore City, India. Materials and Methods: A structured questionnaire was validated using Lawshe technique and was given across medical and dental officers present at 65 Primary Health Centers. Data collected was entered in Excel sheet and further subjected to Descriptive statistics using SPSS version 20. Results: Among 65 PHCs, about 18 PHCs had dental officers posted. In those 18 PHCs only 2 were maintained by the state government and others by Private dental college. In the 65 PHCs , only one PHC maintained a separate register for dental complaints, whereas 48 of them had maintained a combined register for both general and oral complaints. With regard to the management of tooth-related complaints, about 48 of medical officers reported that they dispense the patients affected by providing antibiotics and pain killers (analgesics) and recall, whereas 12 medical officers reported that they get the existing condition treated and refer and the rest refer the patients directly to hospitals. clinics. Conclusion: The results highlight the challenges experienced by nondental primary-care providers and their views on access to oral health to be improved. It is high time that the state government should put oral health policies into practice by recruiting adequate dental officers and providing separate dental infrastructure at the urban PHCs for better utilisation of dental care services.

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“…One of the most common diseases in humankind is oral disease. Despite a high societal and economic encumbrance from oral disease, they receive only little attention in many countries and they are considered as a neglected area of international wellness [1,2].…”

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Utilization and Felt Need of Oral Health Care Services among Women in Chennai-Descriptive Cross-Sectional Study

Abinaya¹,

Patil²,

Bagvandas³

2018

JHS

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Introduction: Oral health is window to overall health. There is a greatest burden of oral diseases on the underprivileged group. In developing countries like India the affordability to oral health care services is very limited thereby leading to poor oral wellness & millions suffer intractable toothache and poor quality of living and end up with few dentition. Objective: To assess the utilization level of oral health services among women in Chennai. Material and methods: A cross-sectional questionnaire survey was conducted among 200 women in Teynampet Zone in Chennai District, Tamil Nadu. The women were chosen by simple random sampling and were interviewed using the semi-structured questionnaire to assess their utilization level during the period of June to July 2016. The data were analyzed by SPSS Version 22. Result: Descriptive statistics and multivariate analysis-MANOVA were used to analyze the utilization level. Majority of the respondents were in the age group of 30-35years, most of the respondents had oral problem and almost everyone had visited dentist at least once within 3 years. Multivariate analysis-MANOVA also showed that the utilization levels were directly influenced by accessibility, availability and affordability and showed statistical significance (p value < 0.05) and also from MANOVA analysis it showed that the respondents who had poor oral hygiene did not utilize oral health care services as the affordability was a problem although accessibility and availability was adequate. Conclusion: Our findings suggest that people who had oral problem had visited dentist in previous 3 years and most of the people who visited dentist had a good oral hygiene. Cost of the treatment affected the dental visits. They believed that visiting the dentist is necessary only for pain relief.

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Oral health services utilization among the rural population of western Rajasthan, India

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Oral health care-seeking behaviour and influencing factors among 18-34 years old women in Kochi, India

Oral health care-seeking behaviour and influencing factors among 18-34 years old women in Kochi, India

Oral health taking a back seat at primary health centers of Bangalore urban district, India – A situation analysis

Utilization and Felt Need of Oral Health Care Services among Women in Chennai-Descriptive Cross-Sectional Study

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