The Effectiveness of Dental Health Behavior Improvement Program for the Prathom 6 Primary School of Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, Donmueng District

Abstract

The Effectiveness of Dental Health Behavior Improvement Program for the Prathom 6 Primary School of Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, Donmueng District

Sunate Jintarith DDS, MPH

Dental Clinic of Dental Health Division, Health Department, BMA

Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of dental health behavior improvement program for the Prathom 6 primary school of Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, Donmueng District.

Study design: Quasi-experimental research.

Subjects: A total of 81 students from Prathom 6 of primary school under Bangkok Metropolitan Administration in Donmueng District

Methods: The 24-week dental health behavior improvement program dividing to 9 sessions was applied to the subjects. The data was collected before, during and after the program.

Main outcome measures: Knowledge and attitude about dental health, dental health care behavior, consuming behavior and tooth-brushing skill.

Results: The dental health data showed significantly improvement of all main outcome measures (p-value < 0.05) at the 6^th, 12^nd and 24^th week. The comparison of dental health data between the 6^th, 12^nd and 24^th weeks showed the decreasing of improvement about all main outcome measures gradually.

Conclusion: The dental health behavior improvement program had effected the improvement of knowledge and attitude about dental health, dental health care behavior, consuming behavior and tooth-brushing skill in the Prathom 6 primary school of Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, Donmueng District for a period of time.

Vajira Med J 2007 ; 51 : 47 - 54