Luis Miguel Fernández, Sneha A Tharayil, Rebecca M Callahan
Beyond the Spoken Word: Examining the Nature of Teacher Gesturing in the Context of an Elementary Engineering Curriculum for English-Learner Students
Texas education review (Austin, Tex.)
purpose purpose study analyze associations oral health literacy refugees two oral health outcomes dental care utilization oral health selfefficacymethods convenience sample refugees greater los angeles area attending english second language esl classes sponsored two refugee assistance organizations used crosssectional correlational study participants responded questionnaire using items health literacy dentistry held scale addition items concerning dental care utilization oral health selfefficacy descriptive statistics chisquare fishers exact tests used analyze resultsresults sixtytwo refugees volunteered participate n62 majority respondents female iraq syria selected item little difficulty oral health literacy tasks regards dental care utilization half respondents considered high utilizers 63 n34 meaning visited dental office within last year little onethird 37 n20 low utilizers indicating either never dental office one year since dental treatment statistical analysis showed associations oral health literacy dental care utilization however associations oral health literacy oral health selfefficacy identified p00045conclusions results support provision easily obtainable understandable oral health information increase oral health literacy dental care utilization among refugee populations future research needed examine oral health literacy among refugees resettling united states