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Are Teachers Working with Visually Impaired Children Prepared to Be Advocates of Oral Health? Pilot Study

Background: Children and adolescents with visual impairment are at increased risk of oral cavity diseases. Pro-health education in their prevention and the role of educators and school counselors are extremely important in this aspect. The aim of the study was to collect information, and compare and...

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Autores principales: Chałas, Renata, Mikuľáková, Wioletta Bronislawa, Maksymiuk, Paweł, Skawińska-Bednarczyk, Agnieszka, Hudáková, Lucia, Pietrak, Justyna, Andraščíková, Ľudmila, Zubrzycka, Joanna, Jordán, Daniel, Radácsi, Andrea, Szőke, Judit
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Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10377820/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37508732
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children10071235
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author Chałas, Renata
Mikuľáková, Wioletta Bronislawa
Maksymiuk, Paweł
Skawińska-Bednarczyk, Agnieszka
Hudáková, Lucia
Pietrak, Justyna
Andraščíková, Ľudmila
Zubrzycka, Joanna
Jordán, Daniel
Radácsi, Andrea
Szőke, Judit
author_facet Chałas, Renata
Mikuľáková, Wioletta Bronislawa
Maksymiuk, Paweł
Skawińska-Bednarczyk, Agnieszka
Hudáková, Lucia
Pietrak, Justyna
Andraščíková, Ľudmila
Zubrzycka, Joanna
Jordán, Daniel
Radácsi, Andrea
Szőke, Judit
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description Background: Children and adolescents with visual impairment are at increased risk of oral cavity diseases. Pro-health education in their prevention and the role of educators and school counselors are extremely important in this aspect. The aim of the study was to collect information, and compare and analyze the level of pro-health awareness in the field of oral health prevention among teachers working with visually impaired children in Poland and Slovakia. Methods: The questionnaire survey covered 109 school educators working with visually impaired children. The survey contained general information about participants concerning their knowledge of oral health, basic information about oral hygiene, and children’s care needs in this area. The obtained results were statistically analyzed. Results: The level of knowledge about oral health was assessed by the majority of respondents as rather good (60.56%), 28.44% as very good, and 11.01% as middling. Teaching children about oral hygiene at school was declared by a majority of them and over half of the correct answers were given by only 48.42% of the respondents. Conclusions: It is advisable to intensify the oral cavity diseases prevention training of teachers working with visually impaired children and youth and there is a great need to organize and carry out educational campaigns in schools for them.
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spelling pubmed-103778202023-07-29 Are Teachers Working with Visually Impaired Children Prepared to Be Advocates of Oral Health? Pilot Study Chałas, Renata Mikuľáková, Wioletta Bronislawa Maksymiuk, Paweł Skawińska-Bednarczyk, Agnieszka Hudáková, Lucia Pietrak, Justyna Andraščíková, Ľudmila Zubrzycka, Joanna Jordán, Daniel Radácsi, Andrea Szőke, Judit Children (Basel) Article Background: Children and adolescents with visual impairment are at increased risk of oral cavity diseases. Pro-health education in their prevention and the role of educators and school counselors are extremely important in this aspect. The aim of the study was to collect information, and compare and analyze the level of pro-health awareness in the field of oral health prevention among teachers working with visually impaired children in Poland and Slovakia. Methods: The questionnaire survey covered 109 school educators working with visually impaired children. The survey contained general information about participants concerning their knowledge of oral health, basic information about oral hygiene, and children’s care needs in this area. The obtained results were statistically analyzed. Results: The level of knowledge about oral health was assessed by the majority of respondents as rather good (60.56%), 28.44% as very good, and 11.01% as middling. Teaching children about oral hygiene at school was declared by a majority of them and over half of the correct answers were given by only 48.42% of the respondents. Conclusions: It is advisable to intensify the oral cavity diseases prevention training of teachers working with visually impaired children and youth and there is a great need to organize and carry out educational campaigns in schools for them. MDPI 2023-07-18 /pmc/articles/PMC10377820/ /pubmed/37508732 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children10071235 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Mikuľáková, Wioletta Bronislawa
Maksymiuk, Paweł
Skawińska-Bednarczyk, Agnieszka
Hudáková, Lucia
Pietrak, Justyna
Andraščíková, Ľudmila
Zubrzycka, Joanna
Jordán, Daniel
Radácsi, Andrea
Szőke, Judit
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10377820/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37508732
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children10071235
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