Acculturation and 4-year caries increment among children of foreign-born mothers in Sweden : a register-based cohort study

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BACKGROUND: To study the association of maternal age upon arrival and length of residence in Sweden with the 4-year caries increment in their children between ages 3 and 7 years in relation to the human development index (HDI) of the maternal country of origin.

METHOD: This registry-based cohort study included all children born in 2000-2003 who resided in Stockholm County, Sweden, at age 3 years and who were followed up at age 7 (n = 63,931). Negative binomial regressions were used to analyze different models adjusted for sociodemographic factors.

RESULTS: Children of foreign-born mothers, regardless of the HDI of the maternal country of origin, had a higher risk of caries increment between ages 3 and 7 years than children of Swedish-born mothers. Furthermore, children of mothers who had arrived from a low or medium HDI country had a lower caries increment if their mothers arrived before age 7 compared with after age 7. Nearly half (44%) of the children whose mothers arrived in Sweden at age ≥ 20 years from a low HDI country had a caries increment compared to 22% of the children whose mothers had arrived in Sweden before 7 years of age. Furthermore, children whose mothers were born in a low HDI country and had resided in Sweden ≤ 19 years had approximately 1.5 times higher risk of caries increment compared to children of mothers who had resided in Sweden for more than 20 years.

CONCLUSIONS: Caries increment in the children of foreign-born mothers was associated with the age of their mother when she arrived in Sweden and was lower when the mother had arrived before age 7 years. This indicates an intergenerational effect that carries over to the children and is greater the longer the mother has participated in Swedish dental healthcare.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:22

Enthalten in:

BMC oral health - 22(2022), 1 vom: 07. Apr., Seite 111

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Granlund, Anna [VerfasserIn]
Soares, Fernanda Cunha [VerfasserIn]
Hjern, Anders [VerfasserIn]
Dahllöf, Göran [VerfasserIn]
Julihn, Annika [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Acculturation
Child
Dental caries
Ethnicity
Human development index
Journal Article
Length of stay
Migration
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Socioeconomic status

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 11.04.2022

Date Revised 20.07.2022

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1186/s12903-022-02130-4

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM339225815