Gowdar Inderjit M, Alogily Zaid A, Alenazi Abdullah I, Basuliman Mahfouz A, Alamodi Muaadh H, Alsubaie Abdulaziz F
Department of Preventive Dental Sciences, College of Dentistry, Prince Sattam Bin Abdul Aziz University, Alkharj, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
J Pharm Bioallied Sci. 2024 Jul;16(Suppl 3):S2256-S2260. doi: 10.4103/jpbs.jpbs_166_24. Epub 2024 Jun 7.
Children's knowledge of oral hygiene is very important to have a good oral health. Health education intervention is the best way to impart oral hygiene knowledge to children, which is cost-effective also.
To evaluate the effectiveness of a structured teaching program in improving the existing oral hygiene knowledge of children in the age group of 10-12 years.
A randomized control trial was planned with one intervention group and control group. A pre-intervention test was conducted in both the groups to assess baseline oral hygiene knowledge among children. After the pre-test, the intervention group children were educated through a structured teaching program for a period of 2 weeks. Again, post-test was conducted in both the groups after a gap of a week.
The pre-intervention oral hygiene knowledge scores were 8.43 ± 3.93 in the intervention group and 8.44 ± 3.90 in the control group. Post intervention, the oral hygiene knowledge score was 15.34 ± 2.37 in the intervention group and 8.96 ± 1.37 in the control group. A 45.04% increase in knowledge was observed in the intervention group. The results were statistically highly significant ( < 0.05).
A structured teaching program is an effective way to impart knowledge among school children; furthermore, long-term follow-up studies are needed to evaluate oral hygiene knowledge gained through the program.
儿童对口腔卫生的了解对于保持良好的口腔健康非常重要。健康教育干预是向儿童传授口腔卫生知识的最佳方式，而且具有成本效益。
评估一项结构化教学计划对提高10至12岁儿童现有口腔卫生知识的有效性。
计划进行一项随机对照试验，分为一个干预组和一个对照组。在两组中都进行了干预前测试，以评估儿童的基线口腔卫生知识。预测试后，干预组的儿童通过结构化教学计划接受了为期两周的教育。一周后，两组再次进行了后测。
干预组干预前的口腔卫生知识得分是8.43±3.93，对照组是8.44±3.90。干预后，干预组的口腔卫生知识得分是15.34±2.37，对照组是8.96±1.37。干预组的知识增长了45.04%。结果在统计学上具有高度显著性（<0.05）。
结构化教学计划是向学童传授知识的有效方式；此外，需要进行长期随访研究来评估通过该计划获得的口腔卫生知识。
