Knowledge, Attitude and Practice on Oral Hygiene Among Mothers in Rural Area of Lahore

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Oral health is an important element of good general health and plays a key role in the child’s lifespan. Dental-caries is one of the best significant universal oral health-problems. In most under-developing states, the stages of dental caries were low but now have a tendency to increase (Kay, 1998) METHODOLOGY: The quantitative cross-sectional study design was used with convenient sampling (n=132). Data was analyzed by using the Statistical Package for the social science (SPSS) 21. The association between knowledge attitude and practice was drawn through Chi-square test with (p=<0.05)  RESULTS: 50.76% people answer that dental carries was due to the food residual on teeth, 29.55% reported that pigments on teeth, 19.55% don’t know. 38.64% people answer the Q2 true.  33.33% answer false. 28.28% don’t know.CONCLUSION: The study determined that over-all level of knowledge amongst women was acceptable but there are need to deliver the more responsiveness about oral-hygiene. The attitude shown positive and there were satisfactory practices of females about oral-hygiene. Majority have knowledge about plaque, cavity and other dental problem, but they did not hygienic their mouth due to deficiency of awareness about the significance of oral-hygiene.

Keywords: Oral hygiene, Knowledge, Attitude, practices