Oral Health Knowledge Of Parents Research Articles

Co-design of an oral health promotion animated film with families in the South of England.

Introduction Oral health promotion interventions should be evidence-based and designed with community involvement. In England, Family Hubs are attended by families from a range of social backgrounds and provide an ideal setting for co-design of health interventions.Aim To co-design and evaluate an animated film for promoting oral health in community settings.Methods Families attended two co-design workshops at a Family Hub in Portsmouth, during which they discussed oral health priorities and commented on the animation design. A before-and-after survey questionnaire assessed its impact on oral health knowledge in another Family Hub in Portsmouth. Qualitative data were analysed using the Framework method, while the survey data were analysed descriptively.Results Families prioritised evidence-based advice for inclusion in the film and contributed to the film storyline. This enabled relevant alterations to ensure the animation was engaging and age-appropriate. Although the survey response rate was low for inferential statistics, descriptive analysis indicated variation in the oral health knowledge of parents and carers.Conclusion Families can offer valuable contributions to the design of health promotion interventions. A co-design method provides an approach for communicating health advice in a form that is relevant and applicable to target audiences.

Oral health knowledge of parents of children and adolescents with congenital heart disease

ABSTRACT Objective: To assess the knowledge on oral hygiene, infective endocarditis, and antibiotic prophylaxis of parents of children and adolescents with heart diseases assisted at the Hospital Ana Nery (reference hospital), Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Methods: Cross-sectional study with 43 guardians of children and adolescents aged 2 through 16 years, performed with the application of a questionnaire. Results: In the sample of parents studied, 64% had completed high school and 47% had a monthly family income of up to one minimum wage. The majority (81%) reported knowing that oral infections may lead to heart complications, 42% knew that oralbacteria may migrate to the heart, and 51% knew the term infective endocarditis. When questioned about antibiotic prophylaxis, 93% had no knowledge about it and 88% did not know the reasons for using antibiotics before dental treatment. Conclusion: Parental knowledge was limited and fragmented. Further attention is required when transmitting information to parents, focusing on prevention strategies in order to guarantee the integral health of these children and adolescents.

Parental Factors Influencing the Development of Early Childhood Caries in Developing Nations: A Systematic Review.

Early childhood caries (ECC) is one of the most prevalent and chronic conditions of childhood. Various factors including biological and dietary factors along with an overlay of parental social factors have been found to be associated with the progression of ECC. The objective of this systematic review is to synthesize available literature and to identify parent-level proximal and distal risk factors associated with the development of ECC in developing nations. Studies conducted in developing nations, published between 2005 and 2017 in English, that included children younger than 6 years and examined ECC were included. The outcome of interest were parental risk factors, which included parental knowledge, behavior, attitudes, sense of coherence (SOC), stress, socioeconomic status (SES), education, and breastfeeding duration. The studies were retrieved from MEDLINE, Ovid Medline, and PubMed. The search yielded 325 studies, of which 18 were considered eligible for inclusion in this review. Ten studies found maternal education, and seven studies found parental education to be significantly associated with ECC. SES was significantly associated with ECC in 13 studies in the form of annual household income and occupation level. Four studies observed the significant association between oral health knowledge and attitudes with ECC, whereas only two studies found maternal attitude to be associated with ECC. Breastfeeding duration was a significant risk factor in four studies. One study each found significant associations of SOC, parental distress, and secondary smoke with ECC. To date, most of the researches done in developing countries have reported distal parental factors such as income and education being significant risk factors in caries development compared to proximal risk factors in low-income groups. Only a few studies analyzed the psychosocial and behavioral factors. Interventions could be designed to improve parental oral health knowledge and behaviors in these nations.

Parents' Attitude towards the Use of Fluorides and Fissure Sealants and its Effect on their Children's Oral Health.

To characterize the attitudes of Israeli parents towards caries preventive measures. participating parents completed a 21-item questionnaire on their demographics, dental history, attitudes and satisfaction from fluorides and fissure sealants. One hundred parents (average age 41.62±4.9 years, 85 females) participated. Most of the parents (88% of the mothers and 84% of the fathers) had an academic education. Most of the parents (54%) had a favorable attitude towards the use of fluoridated gels, while only 37% of them had a positive opinion regarding fluoridated water. The satisfaction levels were very high regarding fissure sealants, fluoridated mouth rinses and fluoridated gels (78.1%, 73.6% and 72.5% respectively). The satisfaction from fluoridated water was split almost equally (50.8% were 'pleased' and 49.2% 'not pleased'). The main source for parental oral health knowledge was the dentist (83%). Parents' attitude towards caries preventive measures was significantly correlated to their gender, dental experience, level of education and the number of children in the family. positive attitude towards caries preventive measures was found among parents with higher awareness for preventive oral health measures and among bigger families. Mothers were more positive about fissure sealants than fathers. Mothers with up to 12 years of education tended to have a positive opinion regarding water fluoridation.

Parental Oral Health Knowledge, Attitude, Practice and Caries Status of Sudanese Cerebral Palsy Children

Background: Cerebral palsy (CP) is a set of nonprogressive neuromuscular disorders due to defects in the developing fetal brain, this group of children at risk of dental caries and gingival diseases owing to dietary factors, poor oral hygiene, lack of parental knowledge concerning oral hygiene and problems related to dental management. The study aimed to assess the parental knowledge, attitude and practices of the oral health and caries status of the Sudanese Cerebral Palsy children. Methods: A cross sectional hospital based study for 123 cerebral palsy children, mean age 6.58 years at Khartoum state. Data regarding the parent oral health knowledge, attitude and practice were collected by face to face interview questionnaires and the caries status was assessed using (dmft/DMFT). Results: The majority of parents 90.2% think that good dental health is important for optimum general health, 81.3% of the children never visited dentist and whose visited dentist 95.7% due to dental problems, 60.2% heard about fluoride, 43.9% though that chocolate, backer products and soft drink cause tooth decay, 40.7% said that media is main source for oral health information. 50.4% of them responded that they can maintain a good oral health to their children. A statistically highly significant association (P=0.002) was found between mother education level and hearing about fluoride. The DMFT, MFT for primary and permanent teeth was 3.6 ± 4.64 and 2.0 ± 2.90 respectively. No significant association between age and DMFT (P=0.000). The caries prevalence in primary and permanent teeth was 57.4% and 46.3% respectively, there was significant association between knowledge level and DMFT in permanent teeth (P=0.037). Conclusion: Children with cerebral palsy had high caries prevalence and parent’s knowledge of oral health was satisfactory concerned supervision of teeth brushing and the role of oral health to the general health of their children, although it was not applying to their daily practices.

An exploration of the views of Australian mothers on promoting child oral health.

An important role for parents and caregivers in the prevention of dental caries in children is the early establishment of health promoting behaviours. This study aimed to examine mothers' views on barriers and facilitators to promoting child and family oral health. Semi-structured interviews were undertaken with a purposive sample of mothers (n = 32) of young children. Inductive thematic analysis was conducted. Parental knowledge and beliefs, past experiences and child behaviour emerged as major influences on children's oral health. Child temperament and parental time pressures were identified as barriers to good oral health with various strategies reported for dealing with uncooperative children at toothbrushing time. Parental oral health knowledge and beliefs emerged as positive influences on child oral health; however, while most mothers were aware of the common causes of dental caries, very few knew of other risk factors such as bedtime feeding. Parents' own oral health experiences were also seen to positively influence child oral health, regardless of whether these were positive or negative experiences. Understanding parental oral health beliefs is essential to overcoming barriers and promoting enablers for good child oral health. Improving child oral health also requires consideration of child behaviour, family influences, and increasing awareness of lesser-known influencing factors.

Influence of mother′s oral health care knowledge on oral health status of their preschool child

Aim: Children under 5 years of age generally spend most of their time with parents or guardians, especially mothers. Parents play a central role in giving children the information and encouragement needed for healthy lives. Parental oral health knowledge, belief and attitudes influence the oral health maintenance, dietary habits and healthy behavior of their children. The aim of this study was to assess the mothers oral health care knowledge and to assess the oral health status of their child. Materials and Methods: A total of 386 mothers along with their child of 1-6 years were randomly selected for the study. A 22-point questionnaire including parent's literacy levels, socioeconomic status, dietary practices and oral hygiene practices, was designed to assess the knowledge of the mothers regarding oral health of their child. Oral examination of the children was done by World Health Organization criteria for recording children's oral health status. Results: About 87% of the mothers agreed that intake of food with excessive sugars can cause cavities, and 95.8% admitted that chocolates cause the most decay. 80.5% agreed to the fact that leaving a milk bottle all night increases the risk for tooth decay, however, 59.3% mothers were of the opinion that dental visit is must only in the presence of decay. 59.3% mothers were unaware about the optimal fluoride content. 71.7% mothers agreed that caries in deciduous teeth are a matter of concern. The average decayed score of the children was 2.9 and 77.9% of the children had a fair to good oral hygiene status. Conclusion: Instead of the fact that most of the health care knowledge that the mothers had was primarily from the family elders, they were aware of caries risk factors, tooth brushes and amount of toothpaste and bacteria from mother's cavities can infect child. This could be observed by less number of decayed teeth and good oral hygiene status of the children. However, parents knowledge, attitudes and few beliefs regarding dental care need to be improved.

Oral Health Care and Dental Caries Experience among 9–14 Year Old Children in Mangalore

Objective To determine the oral health care and dental caries experience among 9–14 year old school going children in Mangalore Materials and Method The study was conducted among 532 school going children aged 9–14 years. A questionnaire regarding snacking and other oral habits of the children as well as oral health knowledge of parents, to be in by the parents, was given after the clinical oral examination of the children. Results The mean number of permanent decayed teeth (DT) was 0.53 ± 1.08 and filled teeth (FT) was 0.27 ± 0.78 whereas the mean number of deciduous decayed teeth (dt) was 0.71 ± 1.31 and filled teeth (ft) was 0.14 ± 0.54. The mean DMFT was 0.79 ± 1.27 and mean dft was 0.87 ± 1.47. Knowledge of parents regarding role of fluoride in toothpaste and the dental caries experience of their children was found to be statistically significant. Conclusion Most of the parents had good knowledge regarding oral health as well as the oral health practice of their children. Although the relationship between the parents knowledge and their children's oral health was not statistically significant, dental caries experience was low.

Assessment of parental oral health knowledge and behaviors among American Indians of a Northern Plains tribe

Investigate the relationship between sociodemographic variables and oral health knowledge and behaviors of American Indian (AI) parents as the initial step in a program aimed at reducing caries experience among AI children. Survey data were collected from a sample of 147 AI parents of children ages 0-7 years who are residents of a Northern Plains reservation. Questions addressed sociodemographic variables for parents/their children and parent oral health knowledge and behavior. Overall knowledge was measured as percentage of items answered correctly. Overall behavior was measured as percentage of items reflecting behavior consistent with accepted oral health recommendations. Oral health knowledge and behaviors, and the relationship between them, were evaluated across groups defined by quartiles. Parent sociodemographic variables were not significantly associated with behavior scores. Female gender, higher level of education, and higher income were significantly and positively associated with mean knowledge scores. Behavior and knowledge scores were significantly correlated. On average, survey participants identified the best answer for 75 percent of knowledge items and engaged in 58 percent of optimal oral health behaviors. Participants in higher oral health knowledge quartiles had greater adherence with recommended oral health behaviors than those in lower quartiles. Surveyed AI parents had reasonably high levels of knowledge about oral health and caries prevention for their children but engaged at relatively lower levels in parental behaviors necessary to promote oral health. Strategies focused on behavior change, rather than knowledge alone, may be most likely to affect oral health outcomes for AI children.

PP052: Effects of preschool oral health program on caries prevention – A review article

Purpose Oral and dental disease cause physical, social, psychological and economic problems for the children and their family. Increasing level of dental caries among children is observed in developing countries including IRAN. The aim of this review is to evaluate the effect of preschool education program on improving oral health especially in developing countries. Method This review examined papers relating to preschool dental health education interventions, in developing countries which were published between 2005 and 2012. Studies were included if they analyzed the effect of an intervention to prevent caries in 0- to 7-year-old children, recorded caries and brushing behavior and their parent’s knowledge utilized a randomized controlled study design. Result the reduction in dental caries was 36/09 to 48/2 after 2–3 years follow up, in several studies. A significantly higher percentage of children in the intervention groups reported brushing their teeth twice a day. In several studies, after 2 years follow up 67–71% of children reported brushing their teeth before going to bed. Knowledge level and attitude of parents were significantly higher in intervention groups. Conclusion Oral health education is an essential component of an oral health program. Oral health education programs were effective in establishing good oral habits among preschool children and increasing oral health knowledge of parents.

Oral Health Knowledge, Past Oral Health Behaviors, and Barriers to Preventive Oral Care of Head Start Parents

Tooth decay remains the most common chronic disease of childhood. The CincySmiles Foundation (CSF) developed an instrument to evaluate Head Start parents’ knowledge of oral health care practices and to identify barriers Head Start parents face when seeking dental treatment for their children. Data from Head Start parents (n = 675) across 3 southwest counties in Ohio were collected by CSF and analyzed by a team of university researchers. The instrument elicited information about oral health care knowledge and practices from the participants. Findings from the parental oral health knowledge scale indicated oral health education programs would benefit the Head Start population. Results suggest oral health practitioners should primarily focus educational efforts on dietary behaviors, bottle feeding, and oral hygiene. Barriers to oral health care adherence of the target population were identified with lack of dental insurance emerging as the primary barrier. An analysis of variance test revealed that participa...

Uticaj roditeljskog znanja, stavova i ponašanja u vezi sa oralnim zdravljem na oralno zdravlje školske dece

The aim of the study was to determine oral health behavior of parents and its influence on children's’ oral health. Material and methods: this cross-sectional study included 99 pairs of parents and their children (V to VIII school grade). Data on parental oral health behaviour, knowledge and attitudes regarding oral hygiene, fluorides and nutrition were collected by questionnaires. Parental dental health was assessed according to self-reported data on tooth loss and prosthodontic rehabilitation, while dental status of their children was determined by clinical examination. Results: Twice a day brushing was reported by 85.7% of parents. Although the majority of parents stated it was necessary to use dental floss, only 29.3% reported flossing. Less than a half of parents supervised their child in brushing, and 18.2% of parents felt unable to influence their child to brush two times a day. Approximately one third of parents thought they should not control sugar consumption of their child. There was a statistically significant correlation between parental oral hygiene and ability to control child in brushing, with oral status of a child. Conclusion: Oral health education activities towards the prevention of risk factors for developing caries should involve both parents and their children, because parental behaviour was significant predictor of children's’ oral health.

Effectiveness of a presentation on infant oral health care for parents

The aim of this study was to evaluate an infant oral health education programme, using a pre-post test design, for parents attending a paediatric clinic. The subjects were parents attending the well baby appointments at 3, 6, and 9 months of age. The study participants were men and women, all with an infant between 3 and 12 months of age. A 16 question assessment in the form of a questionnaire was completed immediately before and after the introduction of a 30 min educational intervention in the form of a PowerPoint presentation and a video of infant oral hygiene for parents. The parents completed the questionnaire twice (pre-post test design) in the same visit. Recruited parents attended only one presentation. The presentation educated parents about infant oral health and provided anticipatory guidance. Forty-seven parents or caretakers participated in the study. On the pre-test 28% had a score of 70% or less, and on the post-test 87% got a score of 88% or better. On the pre-test, 72% had a score of 70% or higher, and on the post-test 87% got a score of 88% or higher. Most parents (80%) reported that the presentation was helpful and indicated that the information would change the way they care for their baby's teeth at home. This study demonstrated the effectiveness of a 30 min PowerPoint and Video presentation in improving the oral health knowledge of parents caring for an infant.