Social cognitive predictors of regular dental visits and mouth self-examination behaviors among the elderly population: An application of the health action process approach model

• Fatemeh Moghaddam,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research Center for Caries Prevention, Dentistry Research Institute, Department of Community Oral Health, School of Dentistry, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Katayoun Sargeran ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: k-sargeran@tums.ac.ir

  Affiliation Department of Community Oral Health, School of Dentistry, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7746-0692

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• Mahdia Gholami,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Community Oral Health, School of Dentistry, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Jamshid Jamali,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, School of Health, Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9681-8231

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• Ahmadreza Shamshiri

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Community Oral Health, School of Dentistry, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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