Caregiver oral health literacy: relationship with socioeconomic factors, oral health behaviors and perceived child dental status.

CONCLUSIONS: Poor oral health literacy was more common among caregivers with less schooling and a poor perception of their child's oral health. OHL was unrelated to monthly family income, child dental health status, perception of own oral health or child or caregiver oral health behaviors. PMID: 32212438 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32212438?dopt=Abstract

Source: Community Dental Health - March 28, 2020 Category: Dentistry Tags: Community Dent Health Source Type: research