Kimon Divaris|Jessica Yuna Lee|A. Diane Baker|William F. Vann
Caregivers' oral health literacy and their young children's oral health-related quality-of-life
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
investigate association caregivers oral health literacy ohl childrens oral health relatedquality life cohrqol explore literacy modifier association childrens oral health status cohs cohrqolthis study relied upon data structured interviews 203 caregivers children aged 35 carolina oral health literacy cohl project data collected ohl using reald30 caregiverreported cohs using nhanesitem cohrqol using early childhood oral health impact scale ecohis study also measured oral health behaviors ohbs sociodemographic characteristics calculated overallstratified summary estimates ohl cohrqol spearmans rho 95 confidence intervals ci computed measures correlation ohl cohs cohrqol determine whether ohl modified association cohs cohrqol study compared literacyspecific summary regression estimatesreported cohs excellent50 good28 good14 fair6 poor2 aggregate cohrqol mean score 20 95 ci 14 26 mean ohl score 159 95 ci 152 167 inverse relationship cohs cohrqol 032 95 ci 045 018 important association ohl cohrqol however deleterious ohbs associated worse cohrqol literacyspecific linear poisson regression estimates association cohs cohrqol departed homogeneity wald 2 p 02in communitybased sample caregiverchild dyads strong correlation found ohs cohrqol associations magnitude gradient less pronounced among caregivers low literacy