Preventive and curative dental services utilization among children aged 12 years and younger in Tehran, Iran, based on the Andersen behavioral model: A generalized structural equation modeling

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Publikašuvnnas:PLoS One vol. 20, no. 1 (Jan 2025), p. e0312043
Váldodahkki: Amirian, Elaheh
Eará dahkkit: Razeghi, Samaneh, Molaei, Alireza, Shamshiri, Ahmad R, Mohebbi, Simin Z
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245 1 |a Preventive and curative dental services utilization among children aged 12 years and younger in Tehran, Iran, based on the Andersen behavioral model: A generalized structural equation modeling 
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520 3 |a World Health Organization invites the nations to progress towards universal health care coverage. This study evaluated preventive and curative dental services utilization among children aged 12 years and younger in Tehran, Iran, based on the Andersen behavioral model using a generalized structural equation modeling. A phone-based cross-sectional study was conducted in Tehran, Iran, on 886 children in 2023. Information on curative and preventive/consultation dental service utilization and associated factors was collected by a standard questionnaire. We used a generalized structural equation model (GSEM) to build a model based on Andersen’s behavioral model. Of 886 children, 22.1% used curative dental services, and 19.9% used preventive/consultation services in the past year. Among children aged 6 years and younger, age (OR = 1.87, p-value <0.001) and parent-perceived oral health need (OR = 54.77, p-value <0.001) predicted curative services utilization and age (OR = 1.45, p-value <0.001), knowledge (OR = 1.36, p-value <0.001), dental visit before the age of one (OR = 6.05, p-value = 0.04), and socioeconomic status (OR = 1.65, p-value = 0.03) predicted preventive/consultation services utilization. Regarding children aged 7 to 12, knowledge (OR = 1.28, p-value = 0.03), dental visit before the age of one (OR = 11.12, p-value = 0.02), socioeconomic status (OR = 2.53, p-value = 0.01), dental insurance (OR = 4.17, p-value <0.001), and parent-perceived oral health need (OR = 19.48, p-value <0.001) associated with curative dental services utilization, and dental visit before the age of one (OR = 10.05, p-value = 0.02), oral health behavior (OR = 1.25, p-value = 0.04), socioeconomic status (OR = 3.74, p-value <0.001), and parent-perceived oral health need (OR = 4.62, p-value <0.001) related to preventive/consultation services utilization. The findings of this study underscore the significant influence of predisposing, enabling, and need factors on dental services utilization among children aged 12 years and younger. These results provide a valuable perspective for policymakers, highlighting the modifiable determinants that could be targeted to improve dental services utilization in this age group. 
651 4 |a Iran 
651 4 |a Brazil 
651 4 |a Tehran Iran 
653 |a Parents & parenting 
653 |a Oral hygiene 
653 |a Socioeconomic factors 
653 |a Dental insurance 
653 |a Modelling 
653 |a Structural equation modeling 
653 |a Questionnaires 
653 |a Families & family life 
653 |a Age 
653 |a Children 
653 |a Quality of life 
653 |a Sample size 
653 |a Health behavior 
653 |a Validity 
653 |a Sustainable development 
653 |a Variables 
653 |a Socioeconomics 
653 |a Missing data 
653 |a Design 
653 |a Data collection 
653 |a Information processing 
653 |a Utilization 
653 |a Health services utilization 
653 |a Dental caries 
653 |a Social 
700 1 |a Razeghi, Samaneh 
700 1 |a Molaei, Alireza 
700 1 |a Shamshiri, Ahmad R 
700 1 |a Mohebbi, Simin Z 
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