TY - JOUR
T1 - Assessment of oral health status and comparative evaluation of different methods of oral health education in children with special health care needs
AU - Supriya, A.
AU - Shenoy, Rekha
AU - Jodalli, Praveen
AU - Sonde, Laxminarayan
AU - Pasha, Imran
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2019/9
Y1 - 2019/9
N2 - Introduction: Oral health is an important aspect of health for all children, and is all the more important for children with special health needs because, severity of medical conditions and perceived general health are significantly associated with dental health status. Methodology: It is a non-randomised intervention study conducted among 510 children with special health care needs aged 7-18 years attending 5 special schools in Mangalore city.The oral health status among these children was assessed using the OHI-S (1964) at baseline, midway and at the end of 9th month of the intervention. The oral health education continued every month till the 9th month of the study. Results: In the present study it has been observed that majority of the children had fair oral hygiene i.e 69.4% in the baseline, which increased to 70.0% in the mid intervention period which further increased to 70.6% at the end of 9th month. Conclusion: The children who received training to brush their teeth with the help of pictures showed slight improvement in their mean OHI-S scores (2.27 to 2.22) at the end of 9th month.
AB - Introduction: Oral health is an important aspect of health for all children, and is all the more important for children with special health needs because, severity of medical conditions and perceived general health are significantly associated with dental health status. Methodology: It is a non-randomised intervention study conducted among 510 children with special health care needs aged 7-18 years attending 5 special schools in Mangalore city.The oral health status among these children was assessed using the OHI-S (1964) at baseline, midway and at the end of 9th month of the intervention. The oral health education continued every month till the 9th month of the study. Results: In the present study it has been observed that majority of the children had fair oral hygiene i.e 69.4% in the baseline, which increased to 70.0% in the mid intervention period which further increased to 70.6% at the end of 9th month. Conclusion: The children who received training to brush their teeth with the help of pictures showed slight improvement in their mean OHI-S scores (2.27 to 2.22) at the end of 9th month.
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U2 - 10.5958/0976-5506.2019.02488.4
DO - 10.5958/0976-5506.2019.02488.4
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85075057444
SN - 0976-0245
VL - 10
SP - 552
EP - 556
JO - Indian Journal of Public Health Research and Development
JF - Indian Journal of Public Health Research and Development
IS - 9
ER -