Fallahi, Arezoo, Tavafian, Sedigheh Sadat, Faghihzadeh, Soghrat, Mohammadkhah, Fatemeh, Amin Shokravi, Farkhondeh (2025). Socio-Economic Statues and Oral Health Behaviours in a Sample of Iranian Students. , 1(3), 87-96.
Arezoo Fallahi; Sedigheh Sadat Tavafian; Soghrat Faghihzadeh; Fatemeh Mohammadkhah; Farkhondeh Amin Shokravi. "Socio-Economic Statues and Oral Health Behaviours in a Sample of Iranian Students". , 1, 3, 2025, 87-96.
Fallahi, Arezoo, Tavafian, Sedigheh Sadat, Faghihzadeh, Soghrat, Mohammadkhah, Fatemeh, Amin Shokravi, Farkhondeh (2025). 'Socio-Economic Statues and Oral Health Behaviours in a Sample of Iranian Students', , 1(3), pp. 87-96.
Fallahi, Arezoo, Tavafian, Sedigheh Sadat, Faghihzadeh, Soghrat, Mohammadkhah, Fatemeh, Amin Shokravi, Farkhondeh Socio-Economic Statues and Oral Health Behaviours in a Sample of Iranian Students. , 2025; 1(3): 87-96.

Socio-Economic Statues and Oral Health Behaviours in a Sample of Iranian Students

Health Education and Health Promotion
Article 8, Volume 1, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 87-96    PDF (150.01 K)
Authors
Arezoo Fallahi1; Sedigheh Sadat Tavafian2; Soghrat Faghihzadeh3; Fatemeh Mohammadkhah2; Farkhondeh Amin Shokravi* 2
1Department of Public Health, School of Health, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran
2Department of Health Education & Health Promotion, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
3Department of Biotic Statistic & Epidemiology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
Aim: Oral health is one of the most important parts of public health which significantly affects on quality of life. The purpose of this study is to assess the socio-economic statues as well as oral health behaviors among a sample of Iranian students studying in elementary level. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study which was conducted from April 2012 to November 2012. Data obtained from a face-to-face interviews with students studying in elementary schools of Chahbahar, Iran. Considering inclusion criteria, 300 eligible students were selected through a two - stage random cluster sampling. Data were analyzed through descriptive statistics using SPSS version 11.5. Finding: Totally 300 students who studying in grade four or five of elementary schools took part in the study. The mean age of subjects was (11± 2.81). Of all students, 11/7% (n = 35) never brush their teeth, 18% (n=54) never floss and 20% (n= 62) never used mouth wash. Furthermore, 94 students (31%) of students had no dental visits regularly. As the results showed, there were significant relationship between lower parents’ educational level (P=0.02), not to access to dental caries services (P=0.04) and lower income (P=0.03) and reasons for not doing oral health behaviour. Conclusion: According the results of this study the students who were in lower socio economic levels, doing less dental healthy behaviors.
Keywords
Oral healthy behavior; Socio-economic; Elementary students; Cross sectional study; Iran
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