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Dental healthcare utilisation among young adults who were in societal out‐of‐home care as children: A Swedish National Cohort Study

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  • Marie Berlin
  • Tita Mensah
  • Frida Lundgren
  • Gunilla Klingberg
  • Anders Hjern
  • Bo Vinnerljung
  • Andreas Cederlund

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We used Swedish national registers to analyse dental health care among young adults with childhood experience of out‐of‐home care (OHC), in Cox regression analyses. All 1.7 million Swedish residents born in 1980–1994 were included, of whom 4% had been in OHC. The population was followed up in the Dental Health Register from age 20 to 29, during the period 2009–2014. We found that persons with short or long OHC experience made emergency dental care visits more often than their majority‐population peers: 17–23% versus 9–10%, (adjusted Hazard ratios [HR:s] 1.60–2.02); they more often had tooth extractions, 9–12% versus 3% (HR:s 2.33–3.03); but less regularly visited a dentist for planned check‐ups, 61–77% versus 80–87% (HR:s 0.76–0.78). Since dental health in young adulthood reflects dental health and dental care in childhood, the findings of this study call for improved preventive dental health care for children in OHC.

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  • Marie Berlin & Tita Mensah & Frida Lundgren & Gunilla Klingberg & Anders Hjern & Bo Vinnerljung & Andreas Cederlund, 2018. "Dental healthcare utilisation among young adults who were in societal out‐of‐home care as children: A Swedish National Cohort Study," International Journal of Social Welfare, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 27(4), pages 325-336, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:injsow:v:27:y:2018:i:4:p:325-336
    DOI: 10.1111/ijsw.12334
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    1. Olsson, Tina M & Blakeslee, Jennifer & Bergström, Martin & Skoog, Therése, 2020. "Exploring fit for the cultural adaptation of a self-determination model for youth transitioning from out-of-home care: A comparison of a sample of Swedish youth with two samples of American youth in o," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 119(C).
    2. Andrea Fenwicke & Ajesh George & Stacy Blythe & Neeta Prabhu, 2024. "Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of Dental Practitioners in Providing Care to Children in Out-of-Home Care: A Scoping Review," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 21(6), pages 1-16, June.
    3. Forsman, Hilma, 2020. "Exploring educational pathways over the life course in children with out-of-home care experience: A multi-group path analysis," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 111(C).

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