The effect of dental health education program for troubleshooting dental public health in community for village health volunteers, Phoyai subdistict, Warinchumrab district, Ubon Ratchathani Province

Abstract

            Community dental public health administration is the key factor for the control and prevention of oral health problem. The aim of this study was to compare the average scores of knowledge, attitude toward oral health care and plaque accumulation between the control and comparison groups. The samples were 60 village health volunteers; 30 in the experimental group and 30 in the control group. the experimental group of 30 students will be going a dental health education program was developed. Data were collected by the questionnaire. Data were analyzed as frequency, percentages, means, and standard deviations. The hypothesis was tested with Dependent and Independent sample t-tests. The qualitative data were also reported.

              The study found that the program implementation, the  experimental group had better attitude and  knowledge about dental administration in dental public health, dental health care, recognition performance in dental public health, and participation of dental public health problem solving in the community than those in the experimental group. The experimental group also had less plaque than the control group with statistical significance at 0.5 level (p - value<0.001).

            The dental health education program that provided the knowledge and skills of dental personnel of village health volunteers can improve oral health as reducing the amount of plaque. It helped improve village health volunteers’ practices, knowledge, attitudes, awareness and participation effectively.