Garbin Cas, Garbin Aji, Dos Santos Kt, Lima Dp
Department of Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry, Araçatuba School of Dentistry, UNESP-São Paulo State University, Araçatuba, SP, Brazil.
Int J Dent Hyg. 2009 Aug;7(3):212-6. doi: 10.1111/j.1601-5037.2009.00394.x.
The aim of this study was to verify the influence of preschool children participating in an oral health education programme on daily health practices of their families, through parent's perception.
A sample of 119 parents of 5- to 6-year-old preschool children were selected. Data were collected using a structured open-closed questionnaire, self-administered. The questions focused on parents' knowledge about activities of oral health education conducted in school, the importance given by them to these activities, learning from their offspring and the presence of habit change at home.
In total, 63 (52.9%) parents agreed to participate. Ninety-eight per cent knew about educative and preventive activities developed at school and all of them affirmed that these activities were important, mainly because of knowledge, motivation and improvement in children's health. Ninety and half per cent of parents reported that they learned something about oral health from their children and, among these, almost half (47.8%) cited toothbrushing as the indicator for better learning. Besides this, 87.3% of participants revealed the change in oral health habits of their family members.
Preschool children were able to transmit knowledge acquired at school to their parents that included change in oral health routine of their family members.
本研究旨在通过家长的认知来验证参与口腔健康教育项目的学龄前儿童对其家庭日常健康行为的影响。
选取了119名5至6岁学龄前儿童的家长作为样本。通过自行填写的结构化开放式-封闭式问卷收集数据。问题集中在家长对学校开展的口腔健康教育活动的了解、他们对这些活动的重视程度、从子女身上学到的内容以及家中习惯的改变情况。
共有63名（52.9%）家长同意参与。98%的家长了解学校开展的教育和预防活动，并且他们都肯定这些活动很重要，主要是因为知识、积极性以及儿童健康状况的改善。90.5%的家长表示他们从孩子那里学到了一些关于口腔健康的知识，其中近一半（47.8%）提到刷牙是更好学习的指标。除此之外，87.3%的参与者表示其家庭成员的口腔健康习惯发生了改变。
学龄前儿童能够将在学校学到的知识传授给家长，其中包括家庭成员口腔健康日常习惯的改变。
