Kotha Sunil Babu, Alabdulaali Rawan Abdulaali, Dahy Wed Talal, Alkhaibari Yousef Rashed, Albaraki Abdullah Saeed Mohammed, Alghanim Abdulaziz Fahad
Department of Preventive Dentistry, Riyadh Elm University, Formerly Riyadh Colleges of Dentistry and Pharmacy (RCsDP), Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Department of Preventive Dental Sciences, College of Dentistry, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
J Int Soc Prev Community Dent. 2018 Nov-Dec;8(6):565-571. doi: 10.4103/jispcd.JISPCD_341_18. Epub 2018 Nov 29.
The parent's oral health knowledge has a great influence on their children, so the aim of the study was to estimate the parental knowledge about oral health care and its influence in maintaining the diet and hygiene practices on their children and also to access how the demographic variables will influence them in taking their child to dental visits.
The self-administered pretested questionnaire was distributed among Saudi parents whose children are in the age group of 2-6 years vising primary health care centers (PHCCs) in Riyadh city. The PHCCs were divided into five zones (Central, East, West, South, and North). 240-250 samples were randomly selected from each zone to reach the prescribed sample size of 1200. The survey will be composed of self-administered pretested questionnaires seeking for age, gender, educational level, and their financial status followed by 26 questions related to parent knowledge about oral health (14), dietary (5), and hygiene (7) practices what they implement on their child. The data collected were analyzed using SPSS software SPSS 25.0 (SPSS, Inc., Chicago, IL, USA).
Demographic information showed that the average age of the parents who participated in the study is 32.2 years. The mothers were 942 (75.7%) and fathers were 303 (24.3%) among the participants. The mean knowledge score among the mothers (34.85) is slightly greater than fathers (34.76). Similar results with dietary and hygiene practices were not statistically significant (>0.05). The parents having more than one child have better knowledge, of which the parents with more than three children have better scores, which is statistically significant. 69.3% of the parents prefer taking to a dentist only when they have a problem. Moreover, these findings found to be statistically significant ( < 0.05).
Parents should get access to oral health knowledge to put in practice on their children so as to influence them in gaining better oral health.
父母的口腔健康知识对其子女有很大影响，因此本研究的目的是评估父母对口腔保健的知识及其在维持子女饮食和卫生习惯方面的影响，并了解人口统计学变量如何影响他们带孩子去看牙医。
自行填写并经过预测试的问卷分发给利雅得市初级卫生保健中心（PHCCs）就诊的、子女年龄在2至6岁的沙特父母。PHCCs分为五个区域（中部、东部、西部、南部和北部）。从每个区域随机抽取240 - 250个样本，以达到规定的1200个样本量。该调查将由自行填写并经过预测试的问卷组成，问卷内容包括年龄、性别、教育程度及其经济状况，随后是26个与父母关于口腔健康（14个）、饮食（5个）和卫生（7个）习惯相关的问题，这些习惯是他们在孩子身上实施的。收集到的数据使用SPSS软件SPSS 25.0（美国伊利诺伊州芝加哥市SPSS公司）进行分析。
人口统计学信息显示，参与研究的父母平均年龄为32.2岁。参与者中母亲有942人（75.7%），父亲有303人（24.3%）。母亲的平均知识得分（34.85）略高于父亲（34.76）。饮食和卫生习惯方面的类似结果无统计学意义（>0.05）。有多个孩子的父母知识水平更高，其中有三个以上孩子 的父母得分更高，具有统计学意义。69.3%的父母仅在孩子有问题时才倾向于带孩子去看牙医。此外，这些发现具有统计学意义（<0.05）。
父母应获取口腔健康知识并在孩子身上付诸实践，以便影响他们获得更好的口腔健康。
