Health counselling in dental care for expectant parents: A qualitative study

OBJECTIVES: Interventions during pregnancy and early childhood have been shown to impact dental health. Thus, Antenatal Care and Dental Care collaborated in an intervention called Health Counselling in Dental Care (HCDC). HCDC was offered free of charge to first‐time expectant parents and was aimed...

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Autores principales: Lindvall, Kristina, Koistinen, Susanne, Ivarsson, Anneli, van Dijken, Jan, Eurenius, Eva
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7693080/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32794308
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/idh.12461
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author Lindvall, Kristina
Koistinen, Susanne
Ivarsson, Anneli
van Dijken, Jan
Eurenius, Eva
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Koistinen, Susanne
Ivarsson, Anneli
van Dijken, Jan
Eurenius, Eva
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description OBJECTIVES: Interventions during pregnancy and early childhood have been shown to impact dental health. Thus, Antenatal Care and Dental Care collaborated in an intervention called Health Counselling in Dental Care (HCDC). HCDC was offered free of charge to first‐time expectant parents and was aimed at reducing the frequency of dental caries in children and their parents. However, the intervention reached less than 50% of the parents. The aim of this study was to explore facilitators of, barriers to, and suggestions for increased participation in HCDC. METHODS: Data were collected through semi‐structured, face‐to‐face interviews with expectant parents. Participants were purposively sampled based on having been invited to HCDC and to achieve a variation in socio‐demographics. Interviews were audio recorded, transcribed verbatim and analysed using conventional qualitative content analysis. RESULTS: In total, 16 interviews were conducted (10 women, 6 men). Six categories representing three facilitators and three barriers for participation emerged. The facilitators were the midwife’s crucial role for disseminating information about HCDC and motivating participation, that the parents perceived HCDC as valuable for themselves and their offspring, and a desire for new or more knowledge. The barriers included a shortage of information regarding the counselling, a perceived lack of value for the parents and offspring, and the timing of the counselling during pregnancy. CONCLUSIONS: The midwives were crucial in providing information and motivation for HCDC participation. To increase attendance, sufficient information regarding the benefits of counselling is required, and the timing needs to be flexible and family‐centred.
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spelling pubmed-76930802020-12-08 Health counselling in dental care for expectant parents: A qualitative study Lindvall, Kristina Koistinen, Susanne Ivarsson, Anneli van Dijken, Jan Eurenius, Eva Int J Dent Hyg Original Articles OBJECTIVES: Interventions during pregnancy and early childhood have been shown to impact dental health. Thus, Antenatal Care and Dental Care collaborated in an intervention called Health Counselling in Dental Care (HCDC). HCDC was offered free of charge to first‐time expectant parents and was aimed at reducing the frequency of dental caries in children and their parents. However, the intervention reached less than 50% of the parents. The aim of this study was to explore facilitators of, barriers to, and suggestions for increased participation in HCDC. METHODS: Data were collected through semi‐structured, face‐to‐face interviews with expectant parents. Participants were purposively sampled based on having been invited to HCDC and to achieve a variation in socio‐demographics. Interviews were audio recorded, transcribed verbatim and analysed using conventional qualitative content analysis. RESULTS: In total, 16 interviews were conducted (10 women, 6 men). Six categories representing three facilitators and three barriers for participation emerged. The facilitators were the midwife’s crucial role for disseminating information about HCDC and motivating participation, that the parents perceived HCDC as valuable for themselves and their offspring, and a desire for new or more knowledge. The barriers included a shortage of information regarding the counselling, a perceived lack of value for the parents and offspring, and the timing of the counselling during pregnancy. CONCLUSIONS: The midwives were crucial in providing information and motivation for HCDC participation. To increase attendance, sufficient information regarding the benefits of counselling is required, and the timing needs to be flexible and family‐centred. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020-09-01 2020-11 /pmc/articles/PMC7693080/ /pubmed/32794308 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/idh.12461 Text en © 2020 The Authors. International Journal of Dental Hygiene published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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Lindvall, Kristina
Koistinen, Susanne
Ivarsson, Anneli
van Dijken, Jan
Eurenius, Eva
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title_full_unstemmed Health counselling in dental care for expectant parents: A qualitative study
title_short Health counselling in dental care for expectant parents: A qualitative study
title_sort health counselling in dental care for expectant parents: a qualitative study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7693080/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32794308
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/idh.12461
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