Effectiveness of Maternal Counseling in Reducing Caries in Cree Children

Harrison, Rosamund; Veronneau, Jacques; Leroux, Brian G.

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“…Parents attributed their children’s improved oral hygiene habits to the efforts of the local dental therapist and COHI Aide. This finding supports earlier research suggesting that individual counselling with regular follow-up by a lay person, such as the COHI Aide, is an effective way to facilitate adoption of constructive oral health behaviours [17]. Parents identified the local, community-based nature of the programme as being critical to this process; it allowed for children to have early access to preventive care, which in turn influenced programme participation and acceptance of COHI’s primary preventive educational messages [18].…”

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The perceptions of first nation participants in a community oral health initiative

Mathu‐Muju

McLeod

Donnelly

et al. 2017

International Journal of Circumpolar Health

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The Children’s Oral Health Initiative (COHI) is a federally funded community-based preventive dental program for children and their caregivers living in geographically isolated Canadian Aboriginal communities. The goal of the program is to improve access to preventive dental services for children of 0–7 years of age. It utilises community health workers in collaboration with dental therapists to promote and deliver the program. Almost half of the province of Manitoba’s (n=27) First Nations communities have implemented COHI since 2005. The objective of this investigation was to explore the opinions of COHI from the perspective of community members whose children had participated in the program. Purposeful selection identified caregivers of enrolled children for a semi-structured interview. The targeted caregivers had children who met at least one of the following criteria: (1) 0–2 years old; (2) 5–7 years old; (3) had two or more children either currently or formerly enrolled in COHI. Six open-ended questions guided the interview process. Content analysis was used to code transcripts and identify themes. One hundred and forty-one interviews were completed in 13 communities. Participants defined good oral health as the absence of dental cavities, which reflects a Western biomedical model of disease. The local, community-based nature of COHI was viewed as essential to its success in increasing access to preventive dental services and improving children and caregivers’ oral health knowledge and behaviours. In conclusion, a local, community-based oral health prevention programme is perceived as having a beneficial effect on children and caregivers’ oral health knowledge and behaviours. However, oral health preventive messages need to be further integrated into traditional Aboriginal holistic models of wellness.

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confidence: 90%

The perceptions of first nation participants in a community oral health initiative

Mathu‐Muju

McLeod

Donnelly

et al. 2017

International Journal of Circumpolar Health

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“…In addition, our results showed increased mean knowledge and performance scores over time after receiving oral health instruction, which led to a reduction in dental caries or severity of caries in the children who participated in this study. This finding has been reported previously [Kay et al, 1996;Harrison et al, 2007Harrison et al, , 2012Masumo et al, 2012;Wagner et al, 2014;Medeiros et al, 2015]. However, some have reported few changes or modest changes in parents' behaviors regarding their child's oral health and subsequently in the incidence of caries [Freudenthal and Bowen, 2010;Ismail et al, 2011].…”

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confidence: 79%

Comparison of Oral Health Education and Fluoride Varnish to Prevent Early Childhood Caries: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Memarpour

Dadaein²,

Fakhraei³

et al. 2016

Caries Res

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Early childhood caries, a serious health problem among young children, can be prevented with effective intervention. The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of oral health education and a fluoride varnish in the prevention of caries in children under the age of 3 years. For this single-blind randomized parallel group 1-year clinical trial in Shiraz, 300 children aged 12-24 months with sound primary teeth were selected and randomly divided into three groups (n = 100): (1) control: no preventive intervention; (2) oral health counseling, and (3) oral health counseling and fluoride varnish at baseline and 6 months later. At baseline and 4, 8 and 12 months after the intervention, caries risk reduction was recorded as the primary outcome. The mothers' knowledge and performance regarding oral health in children was used as a secondary outcome. A total of 260 children (mean age: 20.49 ± 7.33 months) completed the study. Compared to group 1, caries risk reduction in group 2 was 28% (95% CI: -39.05 to -17.45) and 31% in group 3 (95% CI: -41.88 to -21.73). However, there was no significant difference between groups 2 and 3 (95% CI: -8.58 to 1.47). In all groups, mothers' knowledge and performance at baseline were low; however, they increased significantly in follow-up appointments in groups 2 and 3 (p < 0.001). Oral health education increased mothers' knowledge and performance regarding oral health in children. Oral health counseling alone or associated with the use of fluoride varnish reduced the caries incidence in young children.

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“…The study conducted by Harrison et al . [15] also showed that prevalence of treated and untreated caries at the d2 level was 76% in controls versus 65% in tests.…”

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Evaluating the effectiveness of oral health education program among mothers with 6-18 months children in prevention of early childhood caries

Manchanda

Sampath

Sarkar³

2014

Contemp Clin Dent

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Background:Mothers play a key role as transmitters of oral health behavior for their children. Hence increasing their knowledge about positive attitude toward desirable oral health behaviors regarding their children will lead to the better oral health of the children.Aim:The aim was to evaluate the effectiveness of oral health education program among mothers with 6-18 months old children in the prevention of early childhood caries.Materials and Methods:A total of 480 mothers with 6-18 months old children were selected using cluster randomization of the primary health center. The allocated mothers were assigned into three groups: Motivation group (group A), traditional health education group (group B) and control group (group C). Clinical examination was carried out to record the dental decay of the child.Statistical Analysis:The data was analyzed using SPSS 13. Evaluation of statistical significance between groups was made using the Chi-square test, ANOVA and Kruskal-Wallis.Results:Mean number of decayed teeth was 0.23 + 0.58 in group A that was significantly less as compared to 0.39 + 0.79 and 1.17 + 1.32 in group B and C, respectively.Conclusion:Motivational intervention was more effective in reducing dental decay in the children as compared to the other two groups.

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Effectiveness of Maternal Counseling in Reducing Caries in Cree Children

Cited by 76 publications

References 22 publications

The perceptions of first nation participants in a community oral health initiative

The perceptions of first nation participants in a community oral health initiative

Comparison of Oral Health Education and Fluoride Varnish to Prevent Early Childhood Caries: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Evaluating the effectiveness of oral health education program among mothers with 6-18 months children in prevention of early childhood caries

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