A qualitative study of the multi-level influences on oral hygiene practices for young children in an Early Head Start program.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Individual child-level risk factors for Early Childhood Caries (ECC) have been studied, but broader family- and community-level influences on child oral hygiene behaviors are less well understood. This study explored multiple levels of influence on oral hygiene behaviors for young children in Early Head Start (EHS) to inform a future behavioral intervention targeting children from low-income families.

Methods

Twenty-four semi-structured interviews were conducted with mothers of children under 4 years old, enrolled in the home visitor (HV) component of one EHS program in Los Angeles, CA, who participated in the BEhavioral EConomics for Oral health iNnovation pilot study (BEECON) in 2016-7. Audio-recordings of interviews were translated if needed, and transcribed in

SUBMITTER: Finlayson TL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6660967 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature