SOC-TPB Model to predict oral health behaviours among preschoolers
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Maryam Elyasi, University of Alberta
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Project Citation:
Elyasi, Maryam. SOC-TPB Model to predict oral health behaviours among preschoolers. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-12-19. https://doi.org/10.3886/E116861V1
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Objectives: Dental caries is the most common chronic childhood
disease that occurs in a continuum and can be prevented by children and their
parents’ adherence to recommended oral health behaviors. Theory-driven tools
help practitioners to identify the causes for poor adherence and develop
effective interventions. This study examined
the Expanded Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) Model by adding the concept of
Sense of Coherence (SOC) to predict parental adherence to preschooler’s preventive
dental visits.
Methods:
Data regarding socio-economic demographics
were collected from parents of children aged 2-6 years. Constructs of TPB
including parental attitudes, subjective norms (SN), Perceived Behavioural
Control (PBC), and intention to attend preventive dental visits for their preschoolers
were collected by questionnaire, alongside parents' sense of coherence (SOC). Dental attendance was measured by asking if the
child had a regular dental visit during
the last year. Structural Equation Modeling Analysis (SEMA) was carried out to
identify significant direct and indirect (mediated) pathways in the extended
TPB model.
Conclusions: The expanded TPB model explained a great deal of
variance in preschooler’s dental attendance. These findings suggest that the
expanded model could be used as the
framework for designing interventions or strategies to enhance dental attendance among preschoolers; in particular,
such strategies should focus specifically on enhancing parental SOC including empowerment.
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