The effects of oral health literacy development program to prevent gingivitis among the fifth grade students, Khammouane Province, Lao People's Democratic Republic
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This quasi-experimental study aimed to evaluate the effects of oral health literacy development programs to prevent gingivitis among fifth-grade students having gingivitis of two schools in Khammouane Province, Lao People's Democratic Republic. The 30 students at each school were classified as an experimental group and a comparison group by simple randomization of the two schools. The experiment group received the 8 week –oral health literacy development program to prevent gingivitis. The program was composed of 5 activities: 1) training of oral health information access 2) increasing knowledge of oral health 3) tooth-brushing after lunch meal 4) training of self-oral examination, and 5) tooth-brushing stimulation. The comparison group did only tooth-brushing after lunch, which was the routine activity. The measuring instrument is used in both groups before and after the experiment was 1) oral health literacy questionnaire 2) behavioral questionnaire of dietary, brushing, and oral health self-monitoring 3) plaque examination form, and 4) gingival examination form. Plaque and gingival status were examined by dentists. Data were analyzed using paired t-test, Wilcoxon Match Paired Signed Ranks Test, independent 2 sample t-test and Mann-Whitney U test at a 5% significance level. After the program implementation, the experimental group showed statistically significant improvements in mean scores for oral health literacy, eating behavior, brushing behavior and oral health examination behaviors after intervention and better than the comparison group (p <0.001). Improvement of plaque index and gingivitis of the experiment were significantly better than the comparison group (p <0.001).
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