Associations of adverse childhood experiences with caries and toothbrushing in adolescents. The Young-HUNT4 Survey

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BACKGROUND: Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are associated with poor oral health. Using a life course theoretical framework, this study explored the associations of specific and cumulative ACEs with caries and toothbrushing frequency in a Norwegian adolescent population.

METHODS: Participants were adolescents (n = 6351) age 13-17 years from The Young-HUNT4 Survey. Clinical data were retrieved from dental health records. Oral health outcomes were toothbrushing frequency, dentine caries experience (Decayed, Missing, and Filled Teeth - DMFT), and enamel caries. ACE exposure variables were physical abuse, sexual abuse, witness to violence, parental separation/divorce, parental alcohol problems, and bully victimization. Negative binominal regression models (incident rate ratios, IRRs; 95% confidence intervals, CIs) were used to determine the associations of the various ACEs with caries; logistic regression analyses (odds ratios, ORs; 95% CIs) were used to estimate associations with toothbrushing frequency. Potential effect modification by age was assessed using likelihood ratio test.

RESULTS: Adolescents exposed to physical abuse by others, sexual abuse by peers, parental separation/divorce, bullying, or who had witnessed violence, were more likely to report non-daily toothbrushing compared with those with no exposure to the given ACEs. Each cumulative increase in ACE exposure was associated with a 30% higher likelihood of non-daily toothbrushing (OR 1.30, 95% CI 1.19-1.42). Similarly, increasing number of adversities were associated with both higher dentine caries experience (IRR 1.06, 95% CI 1.02-1.09) and higher enamel caries (IRR 1.07, 95% CI 1.03-1.11). This effect was modified by age (13-15 vs. 16-17 years) for dentine caries experience. Furthermore, there was evidence of effect modification by age with bully victimization for both toothbrushing frequency (Pinteraction = 0.014) and dentine caries experience (Pinteraction < 0.001). Specifically, bully victimization was associated with a higher likelihood of non-daily toothbrushing (OR 2.59, 95% CI 1.80-3.72) and higher dentine caries experience (IRR 1.30, 95% CI 1.14-1.50) among 16-17-year-olds.

CONCLUSIONS: Several specific ACEs were associated with non-daily toothbrushing and a higher caries experience among Norwegian adolescents in the Young-HUNT4 Survey.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:23

Enthalten in:

BMC oral health - 23(2023), 1 vom: 14. Okt., Seite 760

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Myran, Lena [VerfasserIn]
Sen, Abhijit [VerfasserIn]
Willumsen, Tiril [VerfasserIn]
Havnen, Audun [VerfasserIn]
Kvist, Therese [VerfasserIn]
Rønneberg, Anne [VerfasserIn]
Dahllöf, Göran [VerfasserIn]
Høvik, Hedda [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

ACE
Adolescents
Adverse childhood experience
Caries
Cross-sectional
DMFT
Epidemiology
HUNT
Journal Article
Oral health
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Toothbrushing

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Date Completed 23.10.2023

Date Revised 18.11.2023

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1186/s12903-023-03492-z

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM363316086