Abstract
Background: It has been reported that some factors associated with regular dental attendance. Meanwhile, few reports have discussed a relationship between work environment, lifestyle and oral hygiene behaviour. Aim: To identify factors associated with regular dental attendance among white-collar workers. Method: This cross-sectional internet-based survey was conducted to identify factors associated with regular dental attendance among white-collar workers. The participants were asked to complete a self-reported questionnaire. A total of 834 daytime-only workers and 109 night-shift workers aged 30 to 69 years were analysed. Result: Work environment, lifestyle and oral hygiene behaviour were included in the analysis. Multiple logistic regression analysis was performed to identify the relationship between these factors and regular dental attendance. As a result, significant differences were observed with the following parameters after adjusting for possible confounding factors: duration of eating breakfast (adjusted odds ratio [AOR], 1.72; 95% confidence interval [95% CI], 1.285–2.297), brushing before bed time (AOR, 1.72; 95% CI, 1.302–2.263), duration of brushing teeth (AOR, 1.56; 95% CI, 1.188–2.046), shift work (AOR, 1.55; 95% CI, 1.067–2.261)aand My job is worth doing (AOR, 1.50; 95% CI, 1.129–1.993). Conclusion: These results indicate that work environment, lifestyle and oral hygiene behaviour are associated with regular dental attendance. In particular, shift work and work stress was associated with regular dental attendance with regard to work environment. Therefore, health care providers might be able to promote dental attendance by informing workers that the work environment, lifestyle and oral hygiene behaviour might be associated with regular dental attendance.
Highlights
Introduction and BackgroundRegular dental attendance has been reported to be associated with better oral status and oral health-related quality of life [1,2,3,4,5]
These results indicate that work environment, lifestyle and oral hygiene behaviour are associated with regular dental attendance
Shift work and work stress was associated with regular dental attendance with regard to work environment
Summary
Introduction and BackgroundRegular dental attendance has been reported to be associated with better oral status and oral health-related quality of life [1,2,3,4,5]. Age and income have been reported as associated factors with regular dental attendance [2,4,6,7,8,9,10,11], few reports have discussed a relationship between work environment, lifestyle and oral hygiene behaviour. Factors such as gender, age and income are difficult to control. We selected white-collar workers as a target group to make the job characteristics similar We expected that these factors would be associated with regular dental attendance. Few reports have discussed a relationship between work environment, lifestyle and oral hygiene behaviour
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