Chałas Renata, Mikuľáková Wioletta Bronislawa, Maksymiuk Paweł, Skawińska-Bednarczyk Agnieszka, Hudáková Lucia, Pietrak Justyna, Andraščíková Ľudmila, Zubrzycka Joanna, Jordán Daniel, Radácsi Andrea, Szőke Judit
Department of Oral Medicine, Medical University of Lublin, Chodźki 6, 20-093 Lublin, Poland.
Department of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Health Care, University of Prešov, Partizánska 3851/1, 080 01 Prešov, Slovakia.
Children (Basel). 2023 Jul 18;10(7):1235. doi: 10.3390/children10071235.
Children and adolescents with visual impairment are at increased risk of oral cavity diseases. Pro-health education in their prevention and the role of educators and school counselors are extremely important in this aspect. The aim of the study was to collect information, and compare and analyze the level of pro-health awareness in the field of oral health prevention among teachers working with visually impaired children in Poland and Slovakia.
The questionnaire survey covered 109 school educators working with visually impaired children. The survey contained general information about participants concerning their knowledge of oral health, basic information about oral hygiene, and children's care needs in this area. The obtained results were statistically analyzed.
The level of knowledge about oral health was assessed by the majority of respondents as rather good (60.56%), 28.44% as very good, and 11.01% as middling. Teaching children about oral hygiene at school was declared by a majority of them and over half of the correct answers were given by only 48.42% of the respondents.
It is advisable to intensify the oral cavity diseases prevention training of teachers working with visually impaired children and youth and there is a great need to organize and carry out educational campaigns in schools for them.
视力障碍儿童和青少年患口腔疾病的风险增加。在预防方面开展促进健康的教育以及教育工作者和学校辅导员的作用在这方面极为重要。本研究的目的是收集信息，并比较和分析波兰和斯洛伐克从事视力障碍儿童教育工作的教师在口腔健康预防领域的促进健康意识水平。
问卷调查涵盖了109名从事视力障碍儿童教育工作的学校教育工作者。该调查包含了参与者关于其口腔健康知识的一般信息、口腔卫生的基本信息以及该领域儿童的护理需求。对获得的结果进行了统计分析。
大多数受访者将口腔健康知识水平评估为相当好（60.56%），28.44%为非常好，11.01%为中等。大多数受访者表示在学校教授儿童口腔卫生知识，只有48.42%的受访者给出了超过一半的正确答案。
建议加强对从事视力障碍儿童和青少年教育工作的教师进行口腔疾病预防培训，并且非常有必要在学校为他们组织和开展教育活动。
