Community water fluoridation: attitudes and opinions from the New Zealand Oral Health Survey.

Autor: Whyman RA; Oral Health Services, Hawke's Bay District Health Board, New Zealand., Mahoney EK; Dental Services, Hutt Valley District Health Board, New Zealand., Børsting T; Dental Services, Hutt Valley District Health Board, New Zealand.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Australian and New Zealand journal of public health [Aust N Z J Public Health] 2016 Apr; Vol. 40 (2), pp. 186-92. Date of Electronic Publication: 2015 Aug 10.
DOI: 10.1111/1753-6405.12408
Abstrakt: Objective: To report the responses of adult participants in the 2009 New Zealand Oral Health Survey (NZOHS) to questions about community water fluoridation (CWF).
Methods: The study used quantitative data from the NZOHS. All adult participants aged 18 years and over in the nationally representative NZOHS sample were included in the study (n=3475). Univariate analysis and multinominal logistic regression models were used to examine the associations between variables.
Results: Overall, 57.7% of respondents thought that there were dental benefits to adding fluoride to drinking water and 31.7% responded that they did not know. More than 45% of respondents did not know whether there were health risks from adding fluoride to drinking water. Overall, 42.0% of respondents were strongly or somewhat in favour of CWF.
Conclusion and Implications: People in the Māori, Pacific and Asian ethnic groups, from the two most deprived quintiles, with no education after high school and who brushed their teeth less than twice a day expressed significantly greater uncertainty about CWF than other population groups. This study suggests further research is required to gain a greater understanding of health literacy about CWF and the cultural appropriateness of CWF in NZ.
(© 2015 Public Health Association of Australia.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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