Oral Health Knowledge, Awareness and Associated Practices of Pre-school Children’s Parents in Damascus, Syria: a cross-sectional study.

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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p><jats:bold>Background</jats:bold>: Oral health hygiene and practices of pre-school children depends on the knowledge, awareness, and attitude of their parents. Parental education level, family background and family size play an important role in adapting oral hygiene practices. Also, oral health behaviors vary between boys and girls, and it is generally believed that girls are better at taking care of their oral hygiene than boys. This cross-sectional study aimed to assess oral health hygiene and practices of pre-school children (4-6 years old) and its correlation with their parent's education level, child gender and child order between his/her brothers in the family.<jats:bold>Methods:</jats:bold> A survey was conducted randomly among 270 parents of Damascus population. Access to the parents in the target age group was achieved through face-to-face interaction (14 parents), online (87 parents) and two different kindergartens in two different social areas (169 parents). A set of 17 questions were formulated, and the questionnaire was distributed. A comparison of the answers from the collected data was made on SPSS 24 using Chi-Square Tests.<jats:bold>Results:</jats:bold> Chi-Square Tests showed the important role of parental education level and its associated with regular dental visit (9.3%), temporary teeth treatment (48.1%), no early extracted teeth due to caries (48.5%) and no current caries (35.2%). On the other hand, there was no difference between child gender or order and daily oral hygiene practices.<jats:bold>Conclusion:</jats:bold> This study highlights the role of Parental education level in the quality of a child’s oral hygiene practices. Although some parents were aware of the importance of temporary teeth treatment and preventing caries through a regular dental visit, they weren’t aware of some deleterious oral habits.</jats:p>

Prácticas y actitudes sobre salud bucal en madres de familia de estudiantes del nivel inicial de la institución educativa 106 Carmen Alto, durante la pandemia COVID-19, Ayacucho 2021

“…Así mismo Lala y col. 20 , Aquino y col. 15 encontraron que el nivel de educación de los padres puede influir en la calidad de prácticas de higiene bucal de los niños.…”

“…No se encontró asociación estadísticamente significativa entre los índices ceo-d e IHO-S de los niños y conocimientos, actitudes y prácticas sobre salud bucal de sus padres y cuidadores, excepto en actitud. Concluyendo que se encontró un nivel regular de conocimientos, actitudes, prácticas y una relación moderada estadísticamente significativa entre actitudes de los padres y cuidadores y el estado de salud bucal de sus niños.En el año 2020, Lala y col 20. evaluaron la higiene bucal y las prácticas de los niños en edad preescolar (4-6 años edad) y su correlación con el nivel de educación de sus padres, el género del niño y el orden del niño entre sus hermanos en la familia.…”