Oral health ambassador scheme: training needs analysis in the community setting

Oral Health Literacy Levels of Nursing Professionals and Effectiveness of Integrating Oral Health Training into Nursing Curricula: A Systematic Review

“…Several barriers have been reported to impede the effective promotion and implementation of oral healthcare among nursing professionals [30,31]. Evidence from the current systematic review showed that a lack of knowledge, awareness, education, skills, and relevant trainings were the key barriers often experienced by the nursing professionals in routine nursing care [4,27,30,31,[60][61][62][63]. Therefore, oral health training or intervention programs targeted to needs and addressing existing barriers could be a feasible approach to improve the current standard of oral care and facilitate sustainable change in oral healthcare.…”

“…Furthermore, the evidence for the adequacy of relevant trainings among the nursing professionals was found to be conflicting. While a few studies perceived that nurses received adequate training in relation to oral health [38,44,46], many studies reported that nurses often received inadequate training [30,60,61,63]. The lack of adequate training could be due to a lack of adequate resources, funding, and time, which needs to be addressed.…”

“…Twelve studies reported barriers that impede the promotion of oral healthcare among nursing professionals [4,27,30,31,35,36,57,[60][61][62][63][64].The key barriers included lack of awareness (84.4%) [31], knowledge/skills (54.4-76.9%) [30,61], and training (5.9-78.0%) [30,60]; lack of time/low priority (44.0-66.2%) [27,30,36,57,60,63,64]; lack of importance placed on oral care (33.8-74.0%) [27,30,36,61,62];lack of staff/resources (48.5-63.6%) [27,31,57,63,64]; lack of tools/equipment (44.4-91.2%) [30,57,60,61]; and patient behavior [27,31,36,63]. Other barriers reported were work load/schedule (12.8-63.6%) [30,31,35], lack of or limited finances/insurance coverage (70.1-79.2%) [31,…”

“…Nineteen studies reported on trainings and resources for promoting oral healthcare [13,14,19,28,30,31,38,[44][45][46]53,55,60,61,63,68,[71][72][73]. Between 34.7% [38] and 88.3% [45] of the nurses perceived that they received adequate training in oral health and the majority felt that the training was optimal [45,46] (Figure 3).…”

“…Between 34.7% [38] and 88.3% [45] of the nurses perceived that they received adequate training in oral health and the majority felt that the training was optimal [45,46] (Figure 3). Conversely, few studies reported that nurses reported a lack of relevant oral-healthcare-related training [30,60,61,63]. Among nurses who received training, the amount of time devoted to oral health training was limited (<2 h [71] and 5 h [13]).…”