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Content analysis of nutritional information in paediatric oral health education leaflets
BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to determine if paediatric oral health education leaflets with a food and nutritional focus provide messages that are clear and consistent with the current Australian Dietary Guidelines and the Infant Feeding Guidelines. METHODS: Forty-three leaflets aimed at pa...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5319061/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28219353 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12887-017-0814-z |
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author | Arora, Amit Doan, Jenny Martinez, Jessamine Phan, Colin Kolt, Gregory S. Bhole, Sameer Harris, Mark Fort Scott, Jane Anne Hector, Debra |
author_facet | Arora, Amit Doan, Jenny Martinez, Jessamine Phan, Colin Kolt, Gregory S. Bhole, Sameer Harris, Mark Fort Scott, Jane Anne Hector, Debra |
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description | BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to determine if paediatric oral health education leaflets with a food and nutritional focus provide messages that are clear and consistent with the current Australian Dietary Guidelines and the Infant Feeding Guidelines. METHODS: Forty-three leaflets aimed at parents were sourced from Australian state and territory Health Departments, oral health industry partners and commercial organisations, and a content analysis was performed. Recommendations on food and drink type, consumption frequency and general diet and nutrition advice were considered and cross-referenced with the Australian Dietary Guidelines and the Infant Feeding Guidelines to identify areas of consistency and discrepancy. RESULTS: Twenty leaflets recommended reducing the consumption of sugary and/or acidic food, while 23 leaflets recommended reducing the consumption of sugary and/or acidic drinks. The majority of the leaflets advised water (n = 35) and milk (n = 23) to drink. Although 33 leaflets encouraged a healthy diet, seven of these did not specify what a healthy diet was. Twenty-eight leaflets provided early childhood-related (0–2 years) feeding advice. Confusing messages were found in nine leaflets, with ambiguous recommendations that were open to individual interpretation. CONCLUSIONS: There were some inconsistencies between the leaflets and the dietary and infant feeding guidelines in Australia; and across the leaflets, as not all important messages were included in any one leaflet. Government Health Departments and other relevant agencies should ensure that advisory messages regarding diet, particularly those with dental implications, are clear, complete and consistent across all dental educational leaflets. |
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spelling | pubmed-53190612017-02-24 Content analysis of nutritional information in paediatric oral health education leaflets Arora, Amit Doan, Jenny Martinez, Jessamine Phan, Colin Kolt, Gregory S. Bhole, Sameer Harris, Mark Fort Scott, Jane Anne Hector, Debra BMC Pediatr Research Article BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to determine if paediatric oral health education leaflets with a food and nutritional focus provide messages that are clear and consistent with the current Australian Dietary Guidelines and the Infant Feeding Guidelines. METHODS: Forty-three leaflets aimed at parents were sourced from Australian state and territory Health Departments, oral health industry partners and commercial organisations, and a content analysis was performed. Recommendations on food and drink type, consumption frequency and general diet and nutrition advice were considered and cross-referenced with the Australian Dietary Guidelines and the Infant Feeding Guidelines to identify areas of consistency and discrepancy. RESULTS: Twenty leaflets recommended reducing the consumption of sugary and/or acidic food, while 23 leaflets recommended reducing the consumption of sugary and/or acidic drinks. The majority of the leaflets advised water (n = 35) and milk (n = 23) to drink. Although 33 leaflets encouraged a healthy diet, seven of these did not specify what a healthy diet was. Twenty-eight leaflets provided early childhood-related (0–2 years) feeding advice. Confusing messages were found in nine leaflets, with ambiguous recommendations that were open to individual interpretation. CONCLUSIONS: There were some inconsistencies between the leaflets and the dietary and infant feeding guidelines in Australia; and across the leaflets, as not all important messages were included in any one leaflet. Government Health Departments and other relevant agencies should ensure that advisory messages regarding diet, particularly those with dental implications, are clear, complete and consistent across all dental educational leaflets. BioMed Central 2017-02-20 /pmc/articles/PMC5319061/ /pubmed/28219353 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12887-017-0814-z Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Arora, Amit Doan, Jenny Martinez, Jessamine Phan, Colin Kolt, Gregory S. Bhole, Sameer Harris, Mark Fort Scott, Jane Anne Hector, Debra Content analysis of nutritional information in paediatric oral health education leaflets |
title | Content analysis of nutritional information in paediatric oral health education leaflets |
title_full | Content analysis of nutritional information in paediatric oral health education leaflets |
title_fullStr | Content analysis of nutritional information in paediatric oral health education leaflets |
title_full_unstemmed | Content analysis of nutritional information in paediatric oral health education leaflets |
title_short | Content analysis of nutritional information in paediatric oral health education leaflets |
title_sort | content analysis of nutritional information in paediatric oral health education leaflets |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5319061/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28219353 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12887-017-0814-z |
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