The Development of Oral Health Promotion Model in Wat Ban Chaneng Child Development Center, Chaneng Subdistrct, Maung District, Surin Province

Abstract

            This action research aims to develop the Oral Health Promotion Model in Wat Ban Chaneng at Child Development Centre at Chaneng sub-district in Maung district, Surin province, Thailand. The participants were employed 210 people including children, parents, teachers, healthcare professionals, monks and a local government officer. The quantitative data were gathered by using standard evaluation criteria of quality childcare and questionnaires of knowledge, attitude and practices in children’s oral health for parents within reliable questionnaire of 0.80, 0.80, and 0.79 (respectively). Children’s oral health status was also assessed. Further critiqued qualitative data using content analysis method within a group discussion, in-depth interviews and the observation. The quantitative data were analyzed by descriptive statistics include frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation. Paired sample t-test was used to compare the difference of data before and after the development.

          T้he results revealed that the participants have created the standardised roles within four categorises, which included 1) Encouraging young children brushing their teeth at home and Child Centre are crucial, 2) Announcing the healthy nutrition roles, such as, no milk bottles and unsweet meals in Child Development Centre, 3) Enhancing local community workers to support the project of Oral Health Care, and 4) To be concerned of Oral Health Surveillance within the local community. Furthermore, the findings showed that teachers, parents, local community workers and the monks were correspondent for the Oral Health Promotion programme. In particular they were satisfied for the Oral Health Promotion programme with a high level as well as improving their knowledge, attitude, and practice with statistically significant (p<0.05). In addition, the scores of Oral Health Index (OHI) for children have improved significantly difference before and after the implementation of oral hygiene programme (p<0.001). Impressively, development of surveillance oral health care programme improved oral health care for children within the organization for community networking which categorized into 4 areas of 1) Home (H); parents who look after their children, 2) Child Centre (C); in order to the teacher who look after the children to brush their teeth while their attending in the school, 3) Community (C); Local Community workers who authorities in the village and 4) Temple (T); Temple to support Oral Health Promotion programme by the local monk.