Effectiveness of Oral Health Education between Dentist and Trained School Health Teacher
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One of the problems in school health education program is the limitation of dental public health officers. Furthermore, school health teachers could not deliver the good knowledge and teach effectively to the students. Therefore, the aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of dentist and trained school health teacher in delivering oral health education to the students. Fifth- and sixth- grade elementary school students were divided into 3 groups: dentist group (n=48), trained teacher group (n=48), and control group which did not receive any oral health education (OHE) (n=46). The evaluation using oral hygiene knowledge test and plaque examination was performed before and after OHE program and analyzed by Paired sample t-test. The difference between groups was analyzed by one-way ANOVA. In knowledge test, both dentist and trained teacher groups had an increased oral health knowledge scores at immediate -and 3 months -post program when compared with baseline (p < 0.05). There was no statistically significant difference in both OHE groups (p > 0.05). Moreover, it was shown that plaque scores at 3 months -post program were decreased significantly in both OHE groups when compared with baseline (p < 0.05). There was no statistically significant difference of plaque scores in both groups (p > 0.05). This study concluded that the effectiveness of dentist and trained teacher in delivering oral health education to the students was not significantly different.
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บทความ ข้อมูล เนื้อหา รูปภาพ ฯลฯ ที่ได้รับการลงตีพิมพ์ในวิทยาสารทันตแพทยศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยขอนแก่นถือเป็นลิขสิทธิ์เฉพาะของคณะทันตแพทยศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยขอนแก่น หากบุคคลหรือหน่วยงานใดต้องการนำทั้งหมดหรือส่วนหนึ่งส่วนใดไปเผยแพร่ต่อหรือเพื่อกระทำการใด ๆ จะต้องได้รับอนุญาตเป็นลายลักษณ์อักษร จากคณะทันตแพทยศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยขอนแก่นก่อนเท่านั้น
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