This study was to provide basic data on oral health promotion development model after studying acculturative stress, self-esteem and tooth brushing related behaviors of multicultural migrant women. To gather data, a self-administered questionnaire was conducted on 173 multicultural migrant women. The highest frequency of tooth-brushing a day is 2 times. 64.2% of the respondents brush their teeth before going to bed. As the way of tooth-brushing, 50.3% use the rolling method. The percentage of those who did not receive oral health education was 70.5%, which was high. Also, the acculturative stress was higher if the tooth-brushing frequency was less, the tooth-brushing was not performed before going to bed, the Fones method was used as a way of tooth-brushing, and oral health education was not experienced at all. The self-esteem was higher if the number of tooth-brushing was more, the roll technique was used as a way of tooth-brushing, and oral health education was experienced. The factors influencing the number of tooth-brushing were age, oral health education experience, and self-esteem. It is necessary to develop an integrated program that provide systematic education and manage it continuously in order to increase knowledge of oral health. © 2018, Indian Journal of Public Health Research and Development. All rights reserved.

Self-esteem Multicultural migrant women Oral health related behavior Tooth-brushing frequency Acculturative stress

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