Clinical and non-clinical variables associated with preventive and curative dental service utilisation: a cross-sectional study among adolescents and young adults in Central Mexico.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The present study aimed to identify preventive and curative dental health service utilisation (DHSU) in the context of associated clinical and non-clinical factors among adolescents and young adults in Mexico.

Design

Cross-sectional study.

Setting

Applicants to a public university in Mexico.

Participants

Participants were 638 adolescents and young adults aged 16-25 randomly selected from university applicants.

Interventions

Data were collected using a self-administered questionnaire filled out by the students. For assessment of dental caries experience, we used the index of decayed, missing and filled teeth.

Primary outcome

The dependent variable was DHSU in the previous 12 months, coded as 0=non-use, 1=use of curative services and 2=use

SUBMITTER: Medina-Solis CE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6756346 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature