Self-efficacy, planning and action control in an oral self-care intervention
Abstract
To evaluate a theory-guided intervention on oral self-care and examine the possible mechanisms among self-regulatory factors, two brief intervention arms were compared, an information-based education treatment and a self-regulation treatment focusing on planning and action control. Young adults (N = 284; aged 18-29 years) were assessed at baseline and 1 month later. The self-regulation intervention improved levels of oral self-care, dental planning and action control. Moreover, a moderated mediation model with planning as the mediator between experimental conditions and dental outcome, and self-efficacy as well as action control as moderators elucidated the mechanism of change. More self-efficacious participants in the self-regulation condition benefitted in terms of more planning, and those who monitored their actions yielded higher levels of oral hygiene. Dental self-efficacy, dental planning and action control are involved in the improvement of oral self-care. Their joint consideration may contribute to a better understanding of health behavior change.
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Adherence to behavioural instructions on oral hygiene allows reduction of periodontal indices.
“Another strategy to promote the oral health of patients is adherence to behavioural instructions on oral hygiene, which allows to reduce periodontal indices [55, 56].”
From Concordance and Clinical Outcomes Improvement Following Oral Hygiene Motivation: A Systematic Review and Report of the Workshop of the Italian Societies of Dental Hygiene (2024) · cites this paper as [55]
The Introduction says interdental cleaning helps prevent periodontal disease, and the Action control section reports that flossing frequency, dental plaque and bleeding scores improved in another study. Zhou et al.’s own intervention measured self-reported flossing frequency, not periodontal indices (Measures); its copy therefore does not establish that adherence to its oral-hygiene instructions reduced those indices. Page numbers were not available in the indexed passages. (LLM, conf=0.82)
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Background
- Authors
- Zhou, G., Sun, C., Knoll, N., Hamilton, K., & Schwarzer, R.
- Affiliations
- Freie Universität Berlin (DE)
- Griffith University (AU)
- Uniwersytet SWPS (PL)
- Corresponding author
- Zhou, Guangyu
- Venue
- Health Education Research
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2015-07-16
- Volume
- 30
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 671-681
- ISSN
- 0268-1153 (ISSN-L)
- 1465-3648
- OpenAlex
- W2282762501
- Cited by
- 113
- References
- 33
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 7 · 2020: 59 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 8 · 2016: 7 · 2013: 1
- FWCI
- 10.79
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Health Education Research (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Research Bank (Australian Catholic University) (submittedVersion)
- eSpace (Curtin University) (submittedVersion)
- Griffith Research Online (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Health Sciences › Dentistry › Periodontics › Dental Health and Care Utilization
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health and Wellbeing Research
- Keywords
- oral self-care, action control, self-regulation, brief intervention, oral hygiene, health behavior change, young adults, moderated mediation
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Female, Humans, Male, Oral Hygiene, Self Care, Health Behavior, Self Efficacy, Intention, Young Adult
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