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Behavioral risk factors and periodontal disease in Malang, Indonesia
Rara Warih Gayatri1, Tika Dwi Tama1, Lucky Radhita Alma1
1Department of Public Health, Universitas Negeri Malang, Malang, Indonesia.
Objective:
This study aimed to analyze the relationship of behavioral risk factors for periodontal disease among 19-64 age group in Malang City.
Method:
A non-experimental quantitative analytic with a cross sectional study approach was used in this study. The respondents were 331 patients who visited the dental clinics of the Health Centers in Malang City. A cluster random sampling technique was used in this study. The instrument used was questionnaire. The data analysis was done through multivariate analyses use logistic-regression.
Results:
The Wald test results on logistic-regression models showed there is no significant effect of smoking habits and consumption patterns on periodontal disease. There is a significant effect of systemic disease on periodontal disease with a significance value of 0.000 (p<0.05).
Conclusions:
There was a significant relationship and effect between systemic disease and periodontal disease in this study.
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