Changing parents’ oral health knowledge and habits within an oral health promotion program for preschool children

Abstract Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of a composite oral health promotion program designed to reduce dental plaque among persons with severe mental illness in a psychiatric institution. Methods: A cluster randomized controlled study was carried out in chronic psychiatric wards of a general hospital in central Taiwan. Sixty-eight eligible male individuals admitted to 2 wards were randomly assigned to an experimental and a control group. Participants in the experimental group underwent an oral health promotion program that consisted of biweekly group education sessions, and a 12-week individual behavioral modification for oral hygiene course. The participants in the control group received usual care only. Dental plaque (measured by the Plaque Control Index) was examined by a single dentist before and after the experiment. Each participant responded to a questionnaire regarding oral health knowledge, attitude and behavior before and after the experiment. Results: Fifty-eight individuals completed the study. Before the experiment, the plaque index was similar between the intervention group (68.9; N=27) and the control group (69.8; N=31). After the experiment, the plaque index was significantly better in the intervention group than in the control group (42.6 vs. 61.8; P<0.001). Participants in the intervention group also demonstrated better oral health knowledge, attitude and behavior than those in the control group after the experiment. Conclusions: A composite oral health promotion program using both group education and individual behavioral methods over a 12-week period was effective in both reducing dental plaque and improving the oral health knowledge of persons with severe mental illness in the institution.

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Oral Health Promotion Program for Persons With Severe Mental Illness: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Study

10.21203/rs.3.rs-41583/v1 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Mei-Wen Kuo ◽

Shu-Hui Yeh ◽

Heng-Ming Chang ◽

Po-Ren Teng

Keyword(s):

Health Promotion ◽

Oral Health ◽

Dental Plaque ◽

Health Knowledge ◽

Intervention Group ◽

Health Promotion Program ◽

Control Group ◽

Oral Health Promotion ◽

Oral Health Knowledge ◽

Promotion Program

Abstract ObjectiveTo evaluate the effectiveness of a composite oral health promotion program designed to reduce dental plaque among persons with severe mental illness in a psychiatric institution.MethodsA cluster randomized controlled study was carried out in chronic psychiatric wards of a general hospital in central Taiwan. Sixty-eight eligible male individuals admitted to 2 wards were randomly assigned to an experimental and a control group. Participants in the experimental group underwent an oral health promotion program that consisted of biweekly group education sessions, and a 12-week individual behavioral modification for oral hygiene course. The participants in the control group received usual care only. Dental plaque (measured by the Plaque Control Index) was examined by a single dentist before and after the experiment. Each participant responded to a questionnaire regarding oral health knowledge, attitude and behavior before and after the experiment.ResultsFifty-eight individuals completed the study. Before the experiment, the plaque index was similar between the intervention group (68.9; N=27) and the control group (69.8; N=31). After the experiment, the plaque index was significantly better in the intervention group than in the control group (42.6 vs. 61.8; P<0.001). Participants in the intervention group also demonstrated better oral health knowledge, attitude and behavior than those in the control group after the experiment. ConclusionsA composite oral health promotion program using both group education and individual behavioral methods over a 12-week period was effective in both reducing dental plaque and improving the oral health knowledge of persons with severe mental illness in the institution. Trial registration: This study was retrospectively registered in Clinicaltrials.gov, with number NCT04464941, dated 7/7/2020. http://register.clinicaltrials.gov/RD103035018.

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Effectiveness of oral health promotion program for persons with severe mental illness: a cluster randomized controlled study

BMC Oral Health ◽

10.1186/s12903-020-01280-7 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 20 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Mei-Wen Kuo ◽

Shu-Hui Yeh ◽

Heng-Ming Chang ◽

Po-Ren Teng

Keyword(s):

Health Promotion ◽

Oral Health ◽

Dental Plaque ◽

Health Knowledge ◽

Intervention Group ◽

Health Promotion Program ◽

Control Group ◽

Oral Health Promotion ◽

Oral Health Knowledge ◽

Promotion Program

Abstract Objective To evaluate the effectiveness of a composite oral health promotion program designed to reduce dental plaque among persons with severe mental illness in a psychiatric institution. Methods A cluster randomized controlled study was carried out in chronic psychiatric wards of a general hospital in central Taiwan. Sixty-eight eligible male individuals admitted to 2 wards were randomly assigned to an experimental and a control group. Participants in the experimental group underwent an oral health promotion program that consisted of biweekly group education sessions, and a 12-week individual behavioral modification for oral hygiene course. The participants in the control group received usual care only. Dental plaque (measured by the Plaque Control Index) was examined by a single dentist before and after the experiment. Each participant responded to a questionnaire regarding oral health knowledge, attitude and behavior before and after the experiment. Results Fifty-eight individuals completed the study. Before the experiment, the plaque index was similar between the intervention group (68.9; N = 27) and the control group (69.8; N = 31). After the experiment, the plaque index was significantly better in the intervention group than in the control group (42.6 vs. 61.8; P < 0.001). Participants in the intervention group also demonstrated better oral health knowledge, attitude and behavior than those in the control group after the experiment. Conclusions A composite oral health promotion program using both group education and individual behavioral methods over a 12-week period was effective in both reducing dental plaque and improving the oral health knowledge of persons with severe mental illness in the institution. Trial registration: This study was retrospectively registered in Clinicaltrials.gov, with number NCT04464941, dated 7/7/2020. https://register.clinicaltrials.gov/RD103035018.

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An oral health promotion program for an urban minority population of preschool children

Community Dentistry And Oral Epidemiology ◽

10.1034/j.1600-0528.2003.00001.x ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 31 (5) ◽

pp. 392-399 ◽

Cited By ~ 32

Author(s):

Rosamund L. Harrison ◽

Tracy Wong

Keyword(s):

Health Promotion ◽

Preschool Children ◽

Oral Health ◽

Health Promotion Program ◽

Minority Population ◽

Oral Health Promotion ◽

Promotion Program ◽

Urban Minority

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Implementation and dissemination of the Sikh American Families Oral Health Promotion Program

Translational Behavioral Medicine ◽

10.1007/s13142-017-0466-4 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 7 (3) ◽

pp. 435-443 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Mary E. Northridge ◽

Rucha Kavathe ◽

Jennifer Zanowiak ◽

Laura Wyatt ◽

Hardayal Singh ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Health Promotion ◽

Oral Health ◽

Health Promotion Program ◽

Oral Health Promotion ◽

Promotion Program ◽

Implementation And Dissemination ◽

American Families

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Development and Validation of Oral Health Knowledge, Attitude and Behavior Questionnaire among Indian Adults

Medicina ◽

10.3390/medicina58010068 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 58 (1) ◽

pp. 68

Author(s):

Siddharthan Selvaraj ◽

Nyi Nyi Naing ◽

Nadiah Wan-Arfah ◽

Mohmed Isaqali Karobari ◽

Anand Marya ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Health Promotion ◽

Oral Health ◽

Item Response ◽

Indian Population ◽

Health Knowledge ◽

Knowledge Domain ◽

Oral Health Promotion ◽

Oral Health Knowledge ◽

And Behavior ◽

Behavior Domain

Background and objectives: The Indian population faces numerous challenges to attain better oral hygiene due to a lack of oral health literacy. For the past 10 years, the prevalence of dental-related conditions in India has become a considerable problem in every state of India. A health-education-based oral health promotion strategy will be an ideal choice for the Indian population instead of endorsing conventional oral health promotion. The use of unsuitable tools to measure may lead to misleading and vague findings that might result in a flawed plan for cessation programs and deceitful effectiveness. Therefore, the research aimed to develop and validate an instrument that can assess the oral health knowledge, attitude and behavior (KAB) of adults in India. Materials and Methods: This study was carried among adults in India, who live in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. A questionnaire was fabricated and then validated using content, face, as well as construct. The knowledge domain was validated using item response theory analysis (IRT), whereas exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was used to validate the behavior domain and attitude. Results: Four principal sections, i.e., knowledge, attitude, demography and behavior, were used to fabricate a questionnaire following validation. Following analysis of item response theory on the knowledge domain, all analyzed items in the domain were within the ideal range of difficulty and discrimination. The Kaiser–Meyer–Olkin measure of sampling adequacy was 0.65 for the attitude and 0.66 for the behavior domain. A Bartlett’s test of sphericity was conducted and demonstrated that outcomes for both domains were highly significant (p < 0.001). The factor analysis resulted in three factors with a total of eight items in the attitude domain and three factors with a total of seven items in the behavior domain depicting satisfactory factor loading (>0.3). Across the three factors, i.e., knowledge, attitude and behavior, internal consistency reliability was tested using Cronbach’s alpha, and the values obtained were 0.67, 0.87, 0.67, and 0.88, respectively. Conclusions: The findings of this study that assessed validity and reliability showed that the developed questionnaire had an acceptable psychometric property for measuring oral health KAB among adults in India.

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