Psychosocial factors and self‐reported transitions in oral and general health

• DOI: 10.1111/eos.12608
• Publication Date: 2019-02-02T11:14:36Z
• Authors: David S. Brennan; Manasi M. Mittinty; Lisa Jamieson
• Keywords: Male; Toothbrushing; Health Behavior; Oral Health; stress; 03 medical and health sciences; 0302 clinical medicine; Health behaviours; South Australia; Humans; Smoking; 1. No poverty; Social Support; social support; Middle Aged; Resilience, Psychological; Self Efficacy; Cross-Sectional Studies; Income; oral health; Female; Self Report; self-efficacy; Stress, Psychological

Psychosocial factors may explain variance in health beyond conventional indicators, such as behaviours. This study aimed to examine changes associated with perceived stress, social support, and self‐efficacy, controlling for sociodemographic characteristics behaviour. A random sample of 45‐ 54‐yr‐old subjects was surveyed 2004–2005, a follow‐up 2 yr later. The outcomes were self‐reported oral general health. Explanatory variables included competence covariates income, gender, dentition status, toothbrushing, smoking. Responses collected from 986 persons (response = 44.4%). At the 2‐yr follow‐up, 25.6% reported worsening 15.3% Prevalence ratios ( PR ) adjusted log‐binomial regression showed an association between higher 0.75, 95% CI: 0.57–0.99), 0.82, 0.72–0.94) stress 1.17, 1.03–1.32). Worsening seen male 1.33, 1.06–1.68 1.14, 1.01–1.29) low income 1.40, 1.04–1.89 1.20, 1.03–1.40). Health‐related self‐efficacy representing psychosocial resilience health, while independent predictors change after