R P Fitzgerald, W M Thomson, G Huakau, M Darrou, D Gilmore, H Sadler, R J Bell, V Danse, B Broad, J R Broughton
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Abstract
Background and objectives: This project extends studies of oral health cultures for lower income families by identifying the participants' meaning of oral health self-care, barriers to its attainment, and suggestions for its improvement.
Methods: Forty open-ended interviews were conducted with Dunedin residents purposively selected from a variety of ages, backgrounds and ethnicities. Transcribed interviews were analysed thematically.
Results: Five key themes emerged: (1) oral health understandings for self and wider family groups; (2) the complexity of understanding cost in relation to oral self-care; (3) oral self-care tools and daily oral health routines; (4) relationships with oral health workers and the meaning of good and bad care provision; and (5) the State's involvement in oral health.
Conclusions: Participants valued good oral health and were knowledgeable about it, but cost was the primary barrier to care.
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