Title: Assessment of the Effect of Oral Health Education Program On Improvement of the Oral Health Knowledge and Behavior
Abstract: Objective: To assess the effect of three kinds of oral health education programs on the improvement of the freshmen's oral health awareness,oral health behaviors and oral health in the medical college. Methods: 1 022 medical college freshmen with caries and periodontal disease from different specialties in physical examination were randomly divided into 4 groups and received the same content of oral health education,but with different teaching methods. The first group was given the oral lecture( lecture group). The second group watched education video( video group). The third group studied the relevant content by themselves( self- learning group). The fourth group was taken as the normal control group. Questionnaires were given to all the freshmen from the four groups before the performance of health education program and two months after it to observe the changes in their health knowledge awareness and health behaviors and to assess the comparison of dental plaque index. Results: Compared with that before the performance of health education,there was significant improvement in health knowledge awareness and health behaviours of the most freshmen( P 0. 05); plaque index in the lecture group and the video group significantly descended compared with that before the intervention( P 0. 05); there was no change in self- learning group and and the control group( P 0. 05). Compared with that in the video and the lecture group,the improvement was most significant in the lecture group( P 0. 05),with the most freshmen willing to take the lecture as their way of having oral health education. Conclusion:Oral health education can produce a positive effect on the improvement of freshmen's oral health condition,oral health awareness and oral health behaviors in medical college.
Publication Year: 2014
Publication Date: 2014-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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