Evaluation of parental awareness regarding their child's oral hygiene

Shaghaghian, Soheila; Savadi, Najmeh; Amin, Maryam

doi:10.1111/idh.12221

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“…Concerning degree of cooperation and parents’ educational attainment, our results showed high correlation between educational level of parents and cooperation of children both in t0 and in t4, demonstrating that cooperation might be particularly influenced by this feature. These findings are in accordance with those in literature (4–7), even if we investigated merely educational level, whereas cited works deeply analysed more aspects of socio-economic status of parents related to oral hygiene maintenance of children. However, educational attainment of parents was found to not affect substantially the cooperation level of children in t4, in fact it evenly increased in SG in all patients.…”

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“…Children are more at risk of dental decay onset because of lack of cooperation and difficulty in daily oral hygiene performing (14). Furthermore, evidences show that, even today, many children do not visit a dentist before of development of permanent teeth14 and it seems to be especially related to socio-economic level of families and to knowledge about the dental care needing in childhood (4–7,15). In order to better investigate these issues, literature suggests to administer questionnaires to parents and several studies have assessed caries risk by using surveys about oral hygiene habits and attendance at dental visits, as well as about parents carefulness in early detecting teeth diseases (16,17).…”

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“…Even now, there are children younger than 2 years who are aware of oral hygiene techniques and who do not visit a dentist until mixed dentition with consequent impact on their oral health and expected ECC (3). The level of education and socio-economic status of parents often influences oral hygiene of children, as well as motivation for periodical dental visits oral health care overall (4–7). At present days, however, technology is largely used in improving motivation and compliance in health management and in oral health (8) and it might be a point to take into account also for improvement of children engagement and compliance maintenance.…”

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Apps for oral hygiene in children 4 to 7 years: Fun and effectiveness

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BackgroundNowadays apps in preschool age are largely used in learning improvement. The aim of this work was to test effectiveness of apps in improving oral hygiene in children patients aged from 4 to 7 years and evaluating correlation between parents educational attainment and children oral hygiene.Material and Methods100 patients aged from 4 to 7 years were randomly assigned by an external office in the study group (SG: 32 females, 18 males) and in the control group (CG: 28 females and 22 males). Plaque index (PI) and carious lesions localisation were detected. At baseline all patients and one of the parents were instructed at chair-side about the proper oral hygiene techniques. SG patients were also given app as an aid in oral hygiene practice. Follow-up was 12 months. Measurements were made every three months at chair-side visits. Information about children compliance in oral hygiene and educational level of parents were obtained by questionnaires at t0 and after 12 months.ResultsSG patients showed stronger oral hygiene and PI lower than those in CG. Questionnaire showed higher compliance of SG patients and parents educational level seemed to affect children oral hygiene.ConclusionsApps in children allowed achieving encouraging results with improvement of oral hygiene and health. Key words:Apps, oral hygiene compliance, children oral hygiene, motivation, educational attainment.

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“…The results in the present study confirmed that educated parents with better financial status follow better parental practices as in other studies. [15283334353637] It was also found that many studies conducted in various countries have concluded that parents with low educational status with lower income levels were important indicators for the parental practices (dietary and hygiene) among their children. [338] In conclusion, the postulated theory for this could be that reduced education status reduces the financial status which resulted in limited access to the dentists on a regular basis.…”

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The influence of oral health knowledge on parental practices among the Saudi parents of children aged 2–6 years in Riyadh City, Saudi Arabia

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Alabdulaali

Dahy

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J Int Soc Prevent Communit Dent

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Aims and Objectives:The parent's oral health knowledge has a great influence on their children, so the aim of the study was to estimate the parental knowledge about oral health care and its influence in maintaining the diet and hygiene practices on their children and also to access how the demographic variables will influence them in taking their child to dental visits.Materials and Methods:The self-administered pretested questionnaire was distributed among Saudi parents whose children are in the age group of 2–6 years vising primary health care centers (PHCCs) in Riyadh city. The PHCCs were divided into five zones (Central, East, West, South, and North). 240–250 samples were randomly selected from each zone to reach the prescribed sample size of 1200. The survey will be composed of self-administered pretested questionnaires seeking for age, gender, educational level, and their financial status followed by 26 questions related to parent knowledge about oral health (14), dietary (5), and hygiene (7) practices what they implement on their child. The data collected were analyzed using SPSS software SPSS 25.0 (SPSS, Inc., Chicago, IL, USA).Results:Demographic information showed that the average age of the parents who participated in the study is 32.2 years. The mothers were 942 (75.7%) and fathers were 303 (24.3%) among the participants. The mean knowledge score among the mothers (34.85) is slightly greater than fathers (34.76). Similar results with dietary and hygiene practices were not statistically significant (>0.05). The parents having more than one child have better knowledge, of which the parents with more than three children have better scores, which is statistically significant. 69.3% of the parents prefer taking to a dentist only when they have a problem. Moreover, these findings found to be statistically significant (P < 0.05).Conclusion:Parents should get access to oral health knowledge to put in practice on their children so as to influence them in gaining better oral health.

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“…They should be educated to realize their children's dental needs, especially for those low-socio-economy parents and whose children with poor oral hygiene. 37 It was reported that teenagers whose parents had high educational achievement used flossing regularly. 38 Previous studies have revealed that educational pattern videos, lectures and pamphlets for the parents and children exerted similar effect on reducing the plaque index.…”

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Oral Health Status of Young People Infected with HIV in High Epidemic Area of China

Chen

Cheng

Xie

2021

JMDH

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Purpose This study aimed to understand the oral hygiene habits and oral health status of young people infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in Henan province of China. Methods Randomized stratified cluster sampling strategy was used to select young people who were receiving highly active anti-retroviral therapy (HARRT) from 6 towns. A total of 104 participants were enrolled and divided into 2 groups, adolescence group and young adult group. By face-to-face oral interview and examination, well-trained dentists collected general information, oral hygiene habits and oral health status of the participants. Results Fifty-eight of them were adolescence group and 46 of them were young adult group. In two groups, most of them brushed their teeth once a day (55.20%, 67.40%), and half of them basically brushed their teeth for 2 minutes (51.7%, 50.0%). Majority of participants did not use dental floss (93.1%,91.3%) and also never visited a dentist (81%,78.3%). One-third of participants had spontaneous bleeding, and about half of them had gingival bleeding when brushed their teeth. The most frequent mucosal disease was oral ulcers. Moreover, the prevalence of caries remained very high in both groups, which was 82.76% and 84.8%, respectively. Most of the participants in both groups had low education level and received less than 9 years of education (65.5%, 63%). Conclusion The participants had poor oral hygiene habits. The economic and education level may associate with the awareness of oral health and care.

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Evaluation of parental awareness regarding their child's oral hygiene

Cited by 23 publications

References 18 publications

Apps for oral hygiene in children 4 to 7 years: Fun and effectiveness

Apps for oral hygiene in children 4 to 7 years: Fun and effectiveness

The influence of oral health knowledge on parental practices among the Saudi parents of children aged 2–6 years in Riyadh City, Saudi Arabia

Oral Health Status of Young People Infected with HIV in High Epidemic Area of China

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