Prevalence and correlates of oral hygiene among school attending adolescents in Pakistan.
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Madam, poor oral health is detrimental to quality of life, and imperils general health.1 Regular brushing of teeth is an effective way of ensuring good dental health.2 Poor dental hygiene has been reported to be associated with substance use, gender, poverty, and age.3,4 To describe these factors' association with self-reported oral hygiene behaviour in the past 30 days in Pakistani students of class 8-10 and its prevalence; I used data from the two-stage cluster sample-based nationally representative Global School-Based Health Survey (GSHS) for Pakistan, conducted by the Ministry of Health in collaboration with the World Health Organization and Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, United States, in 2009.5 Designbased analysis using STATA-12 was done using bivariate analysis and multivariate logistic regression; factors found statistically significant at p<0.10 level on simple logistic regression were used for multiple logistic regression.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- JPMA. The Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association
دوره 63 12 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2013