Oral Health Myths among General Population at Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
BACKGROUND: Taboos or myths have got a connection from the history where there was no scientific understanding about the concepts of health they are part of culture and information shared or communicated by a number of people. Understanding myths and misbelieves are important to provide good oral ca...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8375894/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34447085 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jpbs.JPBS_700_20 |
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author | Gowdar, Inderjit Murugendrappa Alqahtani, Ali Mesfer Asiri, Ali Mohammed Aldossary, Shaya Farhan Alkhurayef, Ibrahim Abdullah Alheneshi, Dhafer Ibrahim |
author_facet | Gowdar, Inderjit Murugendrappa Alqahtani, Ali Mesfer Asiri, Ali Mohammed Aldossary, Shaya Farhan Alkhurayef, Ibrahim Abdullah Alheneshi, Dhafer Ibrahim |
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description | BACKGROUND: Taboos or myths have got a connection from the history where there was no scientific understanding about the concepts of health they are part of culture and information shared or communicated by a number of people. Understanding myths and misbelieves are important to provide good oral care with health education to the people. AIM: The aim of this study is to assess the prevalence of oral health myths and to find its association between the demographic factors of general public in the Riyadh region of Saudi Arabia. METHODOLOGY: Questionnaire consisting of demographic details and myths about oral health problems was sent through Google forms. The link of questionnaire was sent through social media and requested to send the link to their friends and relatives. RESULTS: About 50.71% of the study participants were against to myths and 23.48% of study participants were toward myths. The response in terms of agreement, disagreement or do not know was statistically not significant according to age, gender, or education. CONCLUSION: The prevalence of myths about dental treatment is almost 50%. This population needs to be educated to know the fact and to take action to rectify them about dental treatments. |
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spelling | pubmed-83758942021-08-25 Oral Health Myths among General Population at Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia Gowdar, Inderjit Murugendrappa Alqahtani, Ali Mesfer Asiri, Ali Mohammed Aldossary, Shaya Farhan Alkhurayef, Ibrahim Abdullah Alheneshi, Dhafer Ibrahim J Pharm Bioallied Sci Original Article BACKGROUND: Taboos or myths have got a connection from the history where there was no scientific understanding about the concepts of health they are part of culture and information shared or communicated by a number of people. Understanding myths and misbelieves are important to provide good oral care with health education to the people. AIM: The aim of this study is to assess the prevalence of oral health myths and to find its association between the demographic factors of general public in the Riyadh region of Saudi Arabia. METHODOLOGY: Questionnaire consisting of demographic details and myths about oral health problems was sent through Google forms. The link of questionnaire was sent through social media and requested to send the link to their friends and relatives. RESULTS: About 50.71% of the study participants were against to myths and 23.48% of study participants were toward myths. The response in terms of agreement, disagreement or do not know was statistically not significant according to age, gender, or education. CONCLUSION: The prevalence of myths about dental treatment is almost 50%. This population needs to be educated to know the fact and to take action to rectify them about dental treatments. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021-06 2021-06-05 /pmc/articles/PMC8375894/ /pubmed/34447085 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jpbs.JPBS_700_20 Text en Copyright: © 2021 Journal of Pharmacy and Bioallied Sciences https://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. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Gowdar, Inderjit Murugendrappa Alqahtani, Ali Mesfer Asiri, Ali Mohammed Aldossary, Shaya Farhan Alkhurayef, Ibrahim Abdullah Alheneshi, Dhafer Ibrahim Oral Health Myths among General Population at Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia |
title | Oral Health Myths among General Population at Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia |
title_full | Oral Health Myths among General Population at Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia |
title_fullStr | Oral Health Myths among General Population at Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia |
title_full_unstemmed | Oral Health Myths among General Population at Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia |
title_short | Oral Health Myths among General Population at Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia |
title_sort | oral health myths among general population at riyadh region, saudi arabia |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8375894/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34447085 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jpbs.JPBS_700_20 |
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