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http://dx.doi.org/10.17135/jdhs.2015.15.1.60

Dental Utilization Associated Factors among Elderly  

Ahn, Eunsuk (Department of Social and Humanity in Dentistry, Wonkwang University School of Dentistry)
Hwang, Ji-Min (Department of Dental Hygiene, Baekseok Culture University)
Shin, Myong-Suk (Department of Dental Hygiene, Dongnam Health University)
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Journal of dental hygiene science / v.15, no.1, 2015 , pp. 60-66 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship of predisposing, enabling, need factors and oral health care factors to the dental utilization in 4,521 senior citizens based on the 5th National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data. As for the relationship of predisposing, enabling and need factors to the necessity of denture, higher academic credential and higher income level that were respectively one of predisposing and need factors led to a higher necessity of denture, and the relationship of these factors was statistically significant. As to influential factors for their dental utilization in Model 1, there were significant differences according to gender, marital status and whether to subscribe to private health insurance or not. In Model 2, the need factors of Model 1 were adjusted. As a result, the respondents who didn't receive any unsatisfactory dental treatment made 1.35-fold more dental utilization, and the respondents who complained about mastication difficulty made 1.34-fold more dental utilization. There were significant differences according to gender, age, marital status, academic credential, whether to subscribe to private health insurance, unsatisfactory dental treatment experience and mastication difficulty. Age, unsatisfactory dental treatment experience and whether to complain about mastication difficulty or not made statistically significant differences to the dental utilization in Model 3 that involved oral health status. The above-mentioned findings illustrated that the predisposing factors, the enabling factors and the need factors exerted an influence on the elderly dental utilization. As there are a variety of factors to affect elderly dental utilization, its required to make an effort to boost the accessibility of the elderly to dental service in order to improve their oral health of the elderly.
Keywords
Anderson model; Dental utilization; Elderly;
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