Andersen health care utilization model: A survey on factors affecting the utilization of dental health services among school children

Children's quality of life, academic performance, and future achievement can all be negatively affected by poor dental health. The present study aimed to assess the need for dental health services and the factors influencing their utilization using the Andersen health care utilization model amo...

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Published in:PloS one 2023-06, Vol.18 (6), p.e0286945-e0286945
Main Authors: Nagdev, Preethi, Iyer, Murali R, Naik, Sachin, Khanagar, Sanjeev Balappa, Awawdeh, Mohammed, Al Kheraif, Abdulaziz Abdullah, Anil, Sukumaran, Alsarani, Majed M, Vellappally, Sajith, Alsadon, Omar
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic achievement
Age
Attitudes
Biology and Life Sciences
Bivariate analysis
Care and treatment
Children
Children & youth
Dental care
Dental caries
Dental health
Dentists
Education
Elementary school students
Families & family life
Family size
Health aspects
Health care
Health care facilities
Health care industry
Health care policy
Health problems
Health services
Health services utilization
Medical care
Medicine and Health Sciences
Multiple regression analysis
Oral health
Oral hygiene
Parental behavior
Parenting
Parents
Parents & parenting
People and Places
Pilot projects
Quality management
Quality of life
Questionnaires
Regression analysis
Sample size
Schools
Social Sciences
Sociodemographics
Socioeconomic factors
Socioeconomics
Surveys
Teeth
Travel time
Utilization
Variables
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Summary:Children's quality of life, academic performance, and future achievement can all be negatively affected by poor dental health. The present study aimed to assess the need for dental health services and the factors influencing their utilization using the Andersen health care utilization model among school children. The current cross-sectional study was conducted among schoolchildren aged 13 to 15 in Bangalore, India (n = 1100). A questionnaire was developed using the concepts of the Andersen healthcare usage model. The parents of the children filled out the questionnaire. The factors were investigated using bivariate analysis and multivariate logistic regression analysis. About 78.1% of the children did not utilize dental health services. Regarding the reasons for not visiting a dentist, 65.8% said they did not have a dental problem, and 22.2% said they could not afford it. Bivariate analysis showed that age, gender, education level, occupation of the family's head of household, monthly family income, socioeconomic status, perceived oral health problems, accessibility of dental health facilities, and parental attitudes toward their children's oral health were significantly associated with using dental health services (p
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0286945