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Oral health literacy in Malang City, Indonesia

Dental and oral health are the main indi-cators of health, well-being, and quality of life. The concept of Oral Health Literacy (OHL) has become important because it regards individual capacity to understand and use dental information to transform into oral health behaviours. Thus, the aim of this s...

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Main Authors: Gayatri, Rara Warih, Deniati, Ema Novita, Saub, Roslan
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Published: Page Press Publications 2022
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spelling my.um.eprints.437182023-10-23T06:39:49Z http://eprints.um.edu.my/43718/ Oral health literacy in Malang City, Indonesia Gayatri, Rara Warih Deniati, Ema Novita Saub, Roslan RK Dentistry Preventive dentistr Dental and oral health are the main indi-cators of health, well-being, and quality of life. The concept of Oral Health Literacy (OHL) has become important because it regards individual capacity to understand and use dental information to transform into oral health behaviours. Thus, the aim of this study was to discover and describe the OHL status of adults in Malang City and its relationship with sociodemographic status so that it can be used as a basis for making pol-icy. This study used observational analytical study design involving 450 respondents in Malang by quota random sampling method. The data was collected by the self-adminis-tered 29-item HeLD-ID (Health Literacy in Dentistry Indonesian Version) question-naire. The study resulted that the overall HeLD-ID score was 3.68±0.69. The HeLD-ID score significant difference was affected by sex (p<0.05) and the other sociodemo-graphic determinants (age, last education, and income) were not. However, there were significant differences of HeLD scores in communication domain (p<0.05) affected by age, sex, and income. © the Author(s),2022 Licensee PAGEPress, Italy. Page Press Publications 2022 Article PeerReviewed Gayatri, Rara Warih and Deniati, Ema Novita and Saub, Roslan (2022) Oral health literacy in Malang City, Indonesia. Journal of Public Health in Africa, 13 (s2). ISSN 2038-9922, DOI https://doi.org/10.4081/jphia.2022.2414 <https://doi.org/10.4081/jphia.2022.2414>. 10.4081/jphia.2022.2414
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topic RK Dentistry
Preventive dentistr
spellingShingle RK Dentistry
Preventive dentistr
Gayatri, Rara Warih
Deniati, Ema Novita
Saub, Roslan
Oral health literacy in Malang City, Indonesia
description Dental and oral health are the main indi-cators of health, well-being, and quality of life. The concept of Oral Health Literacy (OHL) has become important because it regards individual capacity to understand and use dental information to transform into oral health behaviours. Thus, the aim of this study was to discover and describe the OHL status of adults in Malang City and its relationship with sociodemographic status so that it can be used as a basis for making pol-icy. This study used observational analytical study design involving 450 respondents in Malang by quota random sampling method. The data was collected by the self-adminis-tered 29-item HeLD-ID (Health Literacy in Dentistry Indonesian Version) question-naire. The study resulted that the overall HeLD-ID score was 3.68±0.69. The HeLD-ID score significant difference was affected by sex (p<0.05) and the other sociodemo-graphic determinants (age, last education, and income) were not. However, there were significant differences of HeLD scores in communication domain (p<0.05) affected by age, sex, and income. © the Author(s),2022 Licensee PAGEPress, Italy.
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author Gayatri, Rara Warih
Deniati, Ema Novita
Saub, Roslan
author_facet Gayatri, Rara Warih
Deniati, Ema Novita
Saub, Roslan
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title Oral health literacy in Malang City, Indonesia
title_short Oral health literacy in Malang City, Indonesia
title_full Oral health literacy in Malang City, Indonesia
title_fullStr Oral health literacy in Malang City, Indonesia
title_full_unstemmed Oral health literacy in Malang City, Indonesia
title_sort oral health literacy in malang city, indonesia
publisher Page Press Publications
publishDate 2022
url http://eprints.um.edu.my/43718/
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