The Effect of Promoting Programs for Perceived Self-Efficacy in Prevention of Dental Caries, Outcome Expectation on Prevention of Dental Caries and Dental Caries Preventive Behaviors Among Grade Six Students at One Primary School in Phitsanulok Province
Keywords:
program, perceived self-efficacy in prevention of dental caries, outcome expectation on prevention of dental caries, dental carry preventive behaviorsAbstract
This quasi–experimental research aimed to evaluate the effect of promoting programs for perceived self-efficacy in prevention of dental caries, outcome expectations on prevention of dental caries and dental caries preventive behaviors among grade six students at one primary school in Phitsanulok Province. The population were the grade six students studying at primary schools in Phitsanulok Province. The sample size of 68 students was calculated. The samples were divided into an experimental group and a control group, each group consisted of 34 students. Two sampling schools were purposively selected. The two selected schools were determined for the experimental group and control group by employing the lottery method. The samples of each school were recruited by using the simple random sampling methods. The effect of health such program had been implemented in the experimental group for 8 weeks. The Bandura’s self-efficacy theory including the domains of perceived self-efficacy and outcome expectation was applied into such program. Data were collected by utilizing. three sections of the questionnaire including; perceived self-efficacy in prevention of dental caries, outcome expectation on prevention of dental caries and dental carry preventive behaviors. They were tested for the Cronbach’s alpha and received the reliability score .78, .78, .77 respectively. Statistics utilized for data analysis were descriptive statistics (mean, percentage and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (Independent t-test, ANCOVA and Paired t-test). The results have shown that the mean score of perceived self-efficacy in prevention of dental caries, outcome expectation on prevention of dental caries and dental carry preventive behaviors in the experimental group was significantly higher after receiving the program, than before receiving the program, and higher than that in the control group (p-value <.05)
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