Effectiveness of Health Education to Improve Oral Care of Primary School Children in A Rural Community of Pakistan

Abstract

Oral health is an integral part of human general health. “Oral health is the beauty of the oral cavity, which includes teeth, tissue and its supporting structure, the overall health promotion is necessary but focuses on oral health is most important, it is primarily aiming to prevent from oral disease by health education. Methods: A quasi- experimental, quantitative, before and after study design was conducted  among the students total (n= 56) in the primary school of Ali Raza Abad Raiwind Road Lahore, Pakistan from September 2018 to December 2018. The educational intervention involve four meeting about oral hygiene in which the researcher educate the students about poor and good oral hygiene, prevention of disease which are caused by poor oral hygiene and appropriate way of tooth brushing lead to good oral health. Results: A total of 56 children participated in the study, the majority of the participants were boys 41(73.2%). The mean before the educational intervention is 5.83 (Standard deviation 3.80) and after the educational intervention is 7.86(Standard deviation 3.36). The mean difference between the two mean is 2.01. There is a statistically significant difference before and after the educational intervention. The educational intervention is highly effective because the significant value is 0.00 Conclusions: The result of the study shows that oral hygiene can be improved by educational intervention and by proper techniques of tooth brushing.

Keywords- Improve oral care. Oral health education.

DOI: 10.7176/JEP/11-7-03

Publication date:March 31^st 2020