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Effect of Dental Health Education on the Knowledge and Attitude Among Expectant Mothers: A Questionnaire Study

BACKGROUND: Although dental caries levels have declined and stabilized the world over, the problem of early childhood caries has remained persistent in many areas of the world affecting certain segments of society, especially the socially deprived, who remain at high risk to this disease. Parents ha...

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Autores principales: Selvarajan, Nandhini B., Krishnan, Ramesh, Kumar, Suresh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6555381/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31198336
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/JPBS.JPBS_293_18
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author Selvarajan, Nandhini B.
Krishnan, Ramesh
Kumar, Suresh
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description BACKGROUND: Although dental caries levels have declined and stabilized the world over, the problem of early childhood caries has remained persistent in many areas of the world affecting certain segments of society, especially the socially deprived, who remain at high risk to this disease. Parents have an essential role in mediating between their children and environment for which prenatal period is the best time for health interventions. This mediation is done through preventive services they provide to their children such as dietary habits supervision, oral hygiene performance, and other practices that can be enhanced by prenatal dental health education. PURPOSE: The purpose of the study was to evaluate, by means of a questionnaire, the expectant mother’s knowledge and attitude toward dental health and to test the effectiveness of the health education tool. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The baseline questionnaire consisted of 27 questions, which was distributed to 138 participants. Subsequently, provision for dental health education was made in batches of 20. After 3 weeks, 10 questions were randomly selected from the first questionnaire for reassessment session. Paired t test was used for statistical analysis. RESULTS: The mean overall knowledge improved from 67.4% to 97.32% and attitude improved from 75.83% to 99.22%. CONCLUSION: Knowledge and attitude of mothers was found to increase on provision of dental health education, which were retained even after a period of 3 weeks.
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spelling pubmed-65553812019-06-13 Effect of Dental Health Education on the Knowledge and Attitude Among Expectant Mothers: A Questionnaire Study Selvarajan, Nandhini B. Krishnan, Ramesh Kumar, Suresh J Pharm Bioallied Sci Original Article BACKGROUND: Although dental caries levels have declined and stabilized the world over, the problem of early childhood caries has remained persistent in many areas of the world affecting certain segments of society, especially the socially deprived, who remain at high risk to this disease. Parents have an essential role in mediating between their children and environment for which prenatal period is the best time for health interventions. This mediation is done through preventive services they provide to their children such as dietary habits supervision, oral hygiene performance, and other practices that can be enhanced by prenatal dental health education. PURPOSE: The purpose of the study was to evaluate, by means of a questionnaire, the expectant mother’s knowledge and attitude toward dental health and to test the effectiveness of the health education tool. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The baseline questionnaire consisted of 27 questions, which was distributed to 138 participants. Subsequently, provision for dental health education was made in batches of 20. After 3 weeks, 10 questions were randomly selected from the first questionnaire for reassessment session. Paired t test was used for statistical analysis. RESULTS: The mean overall knowledge improved from 67.4% to 97.32% and attitude improved from 75.83% to 99.22%. CONCLUSION: Knowledge and attitude of mothers was found to increase on provision of dental health education, which were retained even after a period of 3 weeks. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2019-05 /pmc/articles/PMC6555381/ /pubmed/31198336 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/JPBS.JPBS_293_18 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Journal of Pharmacy and Bioallied Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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title_fullStr Effect of Dental Health Education on the Knowledge and Attitude Among Expectant Mothers: A Questionnaire Study
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title_short Effect of Dental Health Education on the Knowledge and Attitude Among Expectant Mothers: A Questionnaire Study
title_sort effect of dental health education on the knowledge and attitude among expectant mothers: a questionnaire study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6555381/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31198336
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/JPBS.JPBS_293_18
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