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Oral health knowledge and oral hygiene practice among visually impaired subjects in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
BACKGROUND: Oral health is a global issue. It has an enormous impact on the overall health and well-being of an individual. In addition, many studies indicate visual impairment as one of the constraints for proper maintenance of oral hygiene. However, little is known about visually impaired individu...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9077845/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35524206 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12903-022-02199-x |
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author | Fantaye, Wondwossen Nur, Abdela Kifle, Getachew Engida, Fasikawit |
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description | BACKGROUND: Oral health is a global issue. It has an enormous impact on the overall health and well-being of an individual. In addition, many studies indicate visual impairment as one of the constraints for proper maintenance of oral hygiene. However, little is known about visually impaired individuals' oral health knowledge and behavior in Ethiopia, specifically in Addis Ababa. Therefore, this study is conducted to assess the oral health knowledge and related behaviors among participants with visual impairment in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. AIM: This study aimed to assess the oral health knowledge and oral hygiene practice among visually impaired participants in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It is initially imperative to recognize the deficiency of data regarding the dental health care and needs of such visually impaired individuals in Ethiopia. METHODS: It is a quantitative cross-section study design carried out at the Ethiopian National Association for the blind, located in Addis Ababa, the capital city of Ethiopia. A survey was conducted by convenience sampling of visually impaired library attendees' at the blind association. Sixty-five individuals, of which 46 males and 19 females, agreed to take part in the study. Of these, 30.8% had partial and 69.2% total visual impairment. RESULTS: 61.3% with totally and 72% with partially visually impaired scored high in the knowledge of caries causes respectively. The use of tooth brushing was confirmed by 42.2% with totally and 25% with partially visually impaired. The use of Traditional chewing sticks was confirmed by 57.7% with totally and 30% with partially visually impaired individuals. Moreover, both (Toothbrush and Traditional chewing stick) was used by 35.5% totally and 55% partially visually impaired individuals, respectively. CONCLUSIONS: The study showed the awareness about the causes of dental caries among the visually impaired was high. However, the majority of them had a significant misconception about the causes of dental caries. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12903-022-02199-x. |
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spelling | pubmed-90778452022-05-08 Oral health knowledge and oral hygiene practice among visually impaired subjects in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Fantaye, Wondwossen Nur, Abdela Kifle, Getachew Engida, Fasikawit BMC Oral Health Research BACKGROUND: Oral health is a global issue. It has an enormous impact on the overall health and well-being of an individual. In addition, many studies indicate visual impairment as one of the constraints for proper maintenance of oral hygiene. However, little is known about visually impaired individuals' oral health knowledge and behavior in Ethiopia, specifically in Addis Ababa. Therefore, this study is conducted to assess the oral health knowledge and related behaviors among participants with visual impairment in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. AIM: This study aimed to assess the oral health knowledge and oral hygiene practice among visually impaired participants in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It is initially imperative to recognize the deficiency of data regarding the dental health care and needs of such visually impaired individuals in Ethiopia. METHODS: It is a quantitative cross-section study design carried out at the Ethiopian National Association for the blind, located in Addis Ababa, the capital city of Ethiopia. A survey was conducted by convenience sampling of visually impaired library attendees' at the blind association. Sixty-five individuals, of which 46 males and 19 females, agreed to take part in the study. Of these, 30.8% had partial and 69.2% total visual impairment. RESULTS: 61.3% with totally and 72% with partially visually impaired scored high in the knowledge of caries causes respectively. The use of tooth brushing was confirmed by 42.2% with totally and 25% with partially visually impaired. The use of Traditional chewing sticks was confirmed by 57.7% with totally and 30% with partially visually impaired individuals. Moreover, both (Toothbrush and Traditional chewing stick) was used by 35.5% totally and 55% partially visually impaired individuals, respectively. CONCLUSIONS: The study showed the awareness about the causes of dental caries among the visually impaired was high. However, the majority of them had a significant misconception about the causes of dental caries. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12903-022-02199-x. BioMed Central 2022-05-06 /pmc/articles/PMC9077845/ /pubmed/35524206 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12903-022-02199-x Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Fantaye, Wondwossen Nur, Abdela Kifle, Getachew Engida, Fasikawit Oral health knowledge and oral hygiene practice among visually impaired subjects in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia |
title | Oral health knowledge and oral hygiene practice among visually impaired subjects in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia |
title_full | Oral health knowledge and oral hygiene practice among visually impaired subjects in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia |
title_fullStr | Oral health knowledge and oral hygiene practice among visually impaired subjects in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia |
title_full_unstemmed | Oral health knowledge and oral hygiene practice among visually impaired subjects in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia |
title_short | Oral health knowledge and oral hygiene practice among visually impaired subjects in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia |
title_sort | oral health knowledge and oral hygiene practice among visually impaired subjects in addis ababa, ethiopia |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9077845/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35524206 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12903-022-02199-x |
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