To browse Academia. In sub-Saharan Africa, the availability and accessibility of oral health services are seriously constrained and the provision of essential oral care is limited. Reports from the region show a very low utilization of oral health care services, and visits to dental-care facilities are mostly undertaken for symptomatic reasons. The objectives of the present study were to describe the prevalence of oral symptoms among adults in Ouagadougou, capital city of Burkina Faso and the use of oral health services and self-medication in response to these symptoms and to measure the associations between predisposing, enabling and needs factors and decisions to seek oral health care.
The conceptual design of the study was derived from both the Andersen-Newman model of health care utilization and the conceptual framework of the WHO International Collaborative Study of Oral Health Outcomes. Data were obtained by two-stage stratified sampling through four areas representative of different stages of ur To determine why patients attend dental-care facilities in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso and to improve understanding of the capacity of oral health-care services in urban west Africa.
We studied a randomly selected sample of patients attending 15 dental-care facilities in Ouagadougou over a 1-year period in Data were collected using a simple daily record form. From a total of 44, patients, the final sample was established at 14, patients, of whom Most patients seeking care Nongovernmental not-for-profit dental services were used by The most common complaint causing the patient to seek dental-care services was caries with pulpal involvement Methods: A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted among study participants.
Data was collected using pre-tested and structured questionnaires. Data was entered in Epi-info computer software version 3. Univariate analysis and modified Poisson regression were done to identify factors associated with utilization of oral health services.
Results: The mean age of the study participants was It was observed that Conclusion: This study has shown that the level of utilization of oral health services in the studied suburban adult population was poor.
