Relationships between Knowledge, Attitude, Behavior of Oral Health Care in Pregnant Women and the Dental Caries Status in their children Aged 1.5 – 3 years in Prakonechai District, Buriram Province in 2016

Abstract

The purpose in this research was to study the relationship between knowledge, attitude , behavior of  oral health care in pregnant women and the dental caries status  in her child in Prakonechai district during 1 October 2006 till 30 September 2007. The researcher created the Questionaire which composed of the knowledge , attitude and behavior of oral health care in pregnant women. Chi – square test and Fisher s Exact test  was used to analyse the relationship between variables. The samples of this study were the 150 pregnant women , most of them aged between 26 – 30 years. The results were the mean of the ages was 27.73 years (48.7 percent) which the minimum was 20 years and the maximum was 40 years. Most of them were graduated from elementary educated program 66.6 percent , worked as employee 34 percent and 41.3 percent had the incomes lower than 5,000 baht per month. 72.7 percent of the samples would meet the dentist when they had a problem. As for oral health condition of their child were 65.3 percent had caries free and 34.7 percent had dental caries. The majority of pregnant women had the good grade in knowledge and attitude were calculated to 60.7 and 47.39 percent respectively , meanwhile 61.3 percent should be adjust their oral health care behavior. The results have shown the statistical significance between knowledge , attitude and behavior in  oral health care of pregnant women and the dental caries status of their  child   at P < 0.001 , which concluded that pregnant women who had the moderate knowledge about oral health care would have 85.7 percent of dental caries in their child while the low attitude have 68.6 percent , and 52.2 percent of the child had dental caries from improper behavior in take care of the oral cavity by their mothers .