| Autor: |
Mandepanda Mandanna, Dempsy Chengappa, Prasanna, Praveen, Athimuthu, Anantharaj, Ramakrishna, Sudhir, Venkataraghavan, Karthik, Shankarappa, Prathibha Rani |
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Journal of International Oral Health; Nov/Dec2022, Vol. 14 Issue 6, p582-596, 15p |
| Abstrakt: |
(KAP) toward oral health and dietary practices among their parents, and improvements achieved through targeted oral health educational interventions. Materials and Methods: This was a longitudinal study over 1 year, with interventions at baseline and 6 months followed by evaluation at 1 year on children of two schools located at Bengaluru. The calculation of sample size was based on percentage of knowledge according to a pilot study = 66.87%, precision (%) = 5, desired confidence level (%) = 95, and sample size (n) = 340 samples were included. A 25-item KAP questionnaire on diet and dental caries was administered to parents along with an audio-visual intervention at baseline and oral health education booklet at 6 months. The children were examined at baseline and divided into two groups: Group A (caries free) and Group B (caries active). They were examined again at 1 year to evaluate impact of interventions on KAP of their parents, data recorded on modified World Health Organization (WHO) form, statistical analysis was done. Results: Group A showed higher mean scores for KAP with P value of (P < 0.001) being statistically significant. Z-test for proportions to evaluate deterioration in attitudes and practices among parents showed difference in proportion of samples with worsening in Groups A and B not statistically significant (P > 0.05, respectively). Conclusion: Diet is an important determinant in incidence of caries in the community, KAP toward dietary practices of caregivers of children impacts caries incidence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Complementary Index |
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