Oral health: Epidemiology and concordance in Australian children and parents

N Stormon; S Clifford; K Lange; C Mangoyana; P Ford; M Wake; R Lalloo

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Oral health: Epidemiology and concordance in Australian children and parents

N Stormon, S Clifford, K Lange, C Mangoyana, P Ford, M Wake, R Lalloo

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology | WILEY | Published : 2022

DOI: 10.1111/cdoe.12662

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Abstract

Introduction: Studying parent-child pair health provides the opportunity to identify risk factors and opportunities for oral health prevention and intervention focusing on the family context. The aim of this study was to describe the oral health of children aged 11-12 years and their parents in a national sample of parent-child dyads in Australia. Methods: The Child Health CheckPoint is a study of 11 to 12-year-old children and one parent nested within the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, a nationally representative cohort study. In 2015-16, the study collected two-dimensional photographic intra-oral images and was scored using visual assessments of the teeth, oral hygiene and malo..

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University of Melbourne Researchers

Susan Clifford Author

Melissa Wake Author

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Awarded by Financial Markets Foundation for Children

Funding Acknowledgements

[ "ACK N OWLED G EM ENTS The Child Health CheckPoint study was supported by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) of Australia (project grants 1041352 and 1109355), The Royal Children's Hospital Foundation (2014-241), the Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI), The University of Melbourne, the National Heart Foundation of Australia (100660) and Financial Markets Foundation for Children (2014-055 and 2016-310).", "NS was supported by the University of Queensland Graduate School Research Training Program Scholarship and the School of Dentistry research grant for resources supporting analysis of the data. MW was supported by the NHMRC (1160906). The MCRI administered the research grants for the study and provided infrastructural support (IT and biospecimen management) to its staff and the study, but played no role in the conduct or analysis of the trial. Research at the MCRI is supported by the Victorian Government's Operational Infrastructure Support Program." ]