Effectiveness of "Safeguard Your Smile," an oral health literacy intervention, on oral hygiene self-care behaviour among Punjabi immigrants:A randomized controlled trial

Research shows that immigrants have higher rates of oral diseases, poorer access to dental care services, and lower levels of health literacy than their Canadian-born peers. Oral health literacy has emerged as a potential pathway to reduce oral health disparities. The scarcity of studies on oral hea...

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Published in:Canadian Journal of Dental Hygiene 2019-02, Vol.53 (1), p.23-32
Main Authors: Kaur, Navdeep, Kandelman, Daniel, Potvin, Louise
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Activities of daily living
Adult literacy
Adults
Caregivers
Children & youth
Clinical trials
Decay
Dental care
Dental care services
Dental insurance
Dentistry
Dentists
Emergency medical care
Gingivitis
Gum disease
Health aspects
Health disparities
Health education
Health literacy
Immigrants
Intervention
Low income groups
Medicine
Native peoples
Noncitizens
Oral diseases
Oral health
Oral hygiene
Original Research
Periodontitis
Public health
Quality of life
Risk assessment
Self care (Health)
Toiletries industry
Toothbrushing
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Summary:Research shows that immigrants have higher rates of oral diseases, poorer access to dental care services, and lower levels of health literacy than their Canadian-born peers. Oral health literacy has emerged as a potential pathway to reduce oral health disparities. The scarcity of studies on oral health literacy interventions, particularly among immigrants, lent urgency to this study, the purpose of which was to evaluate the effectiveness of an oral health literacy intervention promoting oral hygiene self-care behaviour among Punjabi immigrants. The study used a parallel group, non-blinded, randomized controlled trial design. One hundred and forty (140) Punjabi immigrants between 18 and 60 years of age were enrolled. Participants were randomly allocated to receive either the Safeguard Your Smile (SYS) intervention or a conventional pamphlet. The following outcome measures were assessed at baseline and 3 months post-intervention: self-reported oral hygiene self-care behaviour and knowledge, plaque and gingival indices, and oral health literacy. A linear mixed model for repeated measures was used to compare the intervention and control groups (between) at pre- and post-intervention (within). Participants who received the SYS intervention showed improvements (
ISSN:1712-171X
1712-1728