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Dahlan R, Bohlouli B, Salami B, et al. Parental acculturation and oral health of children among immigrants. J Public Health Dent. 2021;doi: 10.1111/jphd.12481.
Dahlan, R., Bohlouli, B., Salami, B., Saltaji, H., & Amin, M. (2021). Parental acculturation and oral health of children among immigrants. Journal of public health dentistry, . https://doi.org/10.1111/jphd.12481
Dahlan, Rana, et al. "Parental acculturation and oral health of children among immigrants." Journal of public health dentistry vol. (2021). doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/jphd.12481
Dahlan R, Bohlouli B, Salami B, Saltaji H, Amin M. Parental acculturation and oral health of children among immigrants. J Public Health Dent. 2021 Oct 21; doi: 10.1111/jphd.12481. Epub 2021 Oct 21. PMID: 34672365.
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J Public Health Dent. 2021 Oct 21; doi: 10.1111/jphd.12481. Epub 2021 Oct 21.

Parental acculturation and oral health of children among immigrants.

Journal of public health dentistry

Rana Dahlan, Babak Bohlouli, Bukola Salami, Humam Saltaji, Maryam Amin

Affiliations

  1. School of Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
  2. Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
  3. Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

PMID: 34672365 DOI: 10.1111/jphd.12481

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: This cross-sectional study aimed to examine the associations between parental acculturation level and strategies and children's caries experience and oral health (OH) behaviors.

METHODS: Participants were immigrant parents of children aged 2-12 years. Data were collected by validated questionnaires gathering information on socio-demographics, child's OH behaviors, and parents'; acculturation and dental examinations determining child's caries experience using DMFT/dmft index. Univariate and multivariate regression analyses were used.

RESULTS: Three hundred and thirty-six parent/child dyads completed the study. Length of residency (B = 0.103; 95% CI: 0.064, 0.141) parents' education (B = 1.691; 95% CI: 1.228, 2.155), and household income (B = -0.959; 95% CI: -1.566, -0.352) significantly predicted acculturation level. Parents with high Canadian cultural knowledge reported higher frequency of children's toothbrushing (p-value = 0.015). Parents of children who consumed sugar >1/day had higher mean scores of acculturation to Canadian culture (p-value = 0.016), English language proficiency (p-value = 0.024), and Canadian food adoption (p-value = 0.046). Parents of children who visited the dentist within last 12 months had significantly higher assimilation and lower separation mean scores. Parents of children who visited dentist because of dental problems had higher marginalization mean score than those who went for check-ups (p-value = 0.046). Parental acculturation was not significantly correlated with their children's dmft/DMFT level.

CONCLUSIONS: Children of highly acculturated parents reported higher toothbrushing frequency and were more likely to consume sugar than children of less acculturated parents. Assimilated parents reported more and marginalized parents reported less favorable OH behaviors than other categories. Parental acculturation level or strategy was not associated with children's caries experience.

© 2021 American Association of Public Health Dentistry.

Keywords: acculturation; immigrants; oral health

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