Verlinden Deborah Ashley, Schuller Annemarie A, Verrips Gijsbert H W, Reijneveld Sijmen A
Centre of Dentistry and Oral Hygiene, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.
Department of Child Health, Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research TNO, Leiden, the Netherlands.
Eur J Oral Sci. 2020 Jun;128(3):226-232. doi: 10.1111/eos.12700. Epub 2020 May 12.
Young children rely on their parents with respect to oral health routines. However, parental knowledge on this topic is often insufficient. Well-child care may be an excellent route to reach parents because almost all of them attend. To evaluate the effectiveness of an 8.5 min web-based film about oral health, provided by well-child care, a non-blinded quasi-experimental study was performed. Parents attending well-child care clinics in the Netherlands were assigned to an intervention (n = 88) or control group (n = 41). The control group received care as usual. We measured parental knowledge of oral health with a questionnaire (range of scores 1-12) before and directly after the intervention, and 6 months later, and assessed differences between the intervention and the control group. Parental oral health knowledge improved after watching the film: the intervention group's mean score of 11.1 (SD 1.3) was greater than the mean score of 7.1 (SD 2.0) of the control group (Cohen's d = 2.64). Scores remained higher in the intervention group 6 months after watching the film (mean 9.1, SD 1.3) than before (Cohen's d = 1.25). A web-based educational film delivered in a well-child care setting can be an effective way to address oral health and to improve parental knowledge.
幼儿在口腔健康日常护理方面依赖父母。然而，父母在这个话题上的知识往往不足。健康儿童保健可能是接触父母的绝佳途径，因为几乎所有父母都会带孩子参加。为了评估由健康儿童保健提供的一部8.5分钟的关于口腔健康的网络影片的效果，开展了一项非盲法准实验研究。在荷兰参加健康儿童保健诊所的父母被分为干预组（n = 88）或对照组（n = 41）。对照组接受常规护理。我们在干预前、干预刚结束后以及6个月后用一份问卷（得分范围为1 - 12）测量父母的口腔健康知识，并评估干预组和对照组之间的差异。观看影片后父母的口腔健康知识有所提高：干预组的平均得分为11.1（标准差1.3），高于对照组的平均得分7.1（标准差2.0）（科恩d值 = 2.64）。观看影片6个月后，干预组的得分（平均9.1，标准差1.3）仍高于观看影片前（科恩d值 = 1.25）。在健康儿童保健环境中提供的网络教育影片可能是解决口腔健康问题和提高父母知识的有效方式。
