Factors related to oral health care behaviors of disabled, Buayai sub-district, Buayai district, Nakhon ratchasima provience

Abstract

            The objectives of this cross sectional study were  to (1) determine oral health status, predisposing factors, enabling factors, reinforcing factors and oral health care behaviors of  disabled and (2) explore relationships among oral health status, predisposing factors, enabling factors, reinforcing factors and oral health care behaviors of disabled. The samples were 117 disabled who registered with primary care unit at BuaYai Hospital in 2012 in BuaYai Subdistrict, BuaYai District, Nakhon Ratchasima. Data were collected by interview and oral examination.  Data were analyzed by using percentage, mean and standard deviation, median, minimum, maximum, Spearman’s rank order correlation, Fisher exact test was also used.

            The result showed that factors related  significantly to oral health care behaviors of disabled in  BuaYai  Subdistrict , BuaYai  District,  Nakhon Ratchasima were  age (r = -0.21; 95% CI: -0.188 to -0.023; p-value = 0.019), marital status(r = 0.26; 9 % CI: -0.32 to 6.40; p-value = 0.004), attitude (r = 0 .29; 95 % CI: 0.05 to 0.62; p-value < 0 .01)and perception about oral health care(r = 0.36; 95 % CI: 0.06 to 0.83; p-value < 0.01). Receiving of information about oral health care(r = 0.26; 95 % CI: 1.18 to 11.00; p-value = 0.004), social support (r = 0.23; 95 % CI: -0.18 to 0.40; p-value = 0.01), DMFT (r = -0.195; 95% CI: -0.53 to -0.9; p-value = 0.035) and subgingival calculus(OR = 9.4595% CI of OR: 0.55 to 161.92,  p-value = 0.009) were also associated significantly at 0.05.