Friendship Network and Dental Brushing Behavior among Middle School Students: An Agent Based Modeling Approach.

ABSTRACT: By using a standard questionnaire, the level of dental brushing frequency was assessed among 201 adolescent female middle school students in Tehran. The initial assessment was repeated after 5 months, in order to observe the dynamics in dental health behavior level. Logistic Regression model was used to evaluate the correlation among individuals' dental health behavior in their social network. A significant correlation on dental brushing habits was detected among groups of friends. This correlation was further spread over the network within the 5 months period. Moreover, it was identified that the average brushing level was improved within the 5 months period. Given that there was a significant correlation between social network's nodes' in-degree value, and brushing level, it was suggeste

SUBMITTER: Sadeghipour M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5245796 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature