Oral Health Care System for Children by the Parents in Hin-lek-fai Subdistrict, Ku-meung District, Buriram Province

Abstract

          The purpose of this research was to study the oral health care system for children by the parents, this study applied the Appreciation-Influence-Control (AIC) model in configuring the participants of 97 samples, who were parents, village health volunteers, community leaders, and public health officers. The data were gathered both quantitative and qualitative methods regarding to the questionnaire as: Oral health knowledge, Oral health care satisfaction from the parents and Oral health survey for the children, further investigation with focus group discussion and observation for the intervention, these data were analyzed with Percentage, Mean, SD, and Paired Samples t-test as well as content analysis for qualitative data.

          The results showed that the development process was consisted of 6 steps: 1) Study community context and analyze the problems. 2) Planning solve the problems. 3) Implementation of plan. 4) Oral health care for children three phases. 5) Assess the oral health. 6) Conclusion and evaluation of development process. In addition, the quantitative results were increased the knowledge of oral health care. Impressing, after the implement the model found that the performance and satisfaction towards with statistic were significantly different (P<0.05). The key success factors of the development required the participation from the partnership networks in the performance of the community, which enhanced local authorities the continuity of activities in the oral health care system of sustainably, called PPC-model. The development is results in a change for the better and appropriately with the community context.