Preventive Behaviorof Gingivitis among Secondary School Students, Kumuang Subdistrict, Warin Chamrap District, Ubon Ratchathani Province

Abstract

The cross-sectional descriptive study aimed to study 1) a prevention behavior of Gingivitis 2) the knowledge of Gingivitis among secondary school students. A Purposive sampling was selected from 197 secondary school students at Ban Kumuang (On-Anukro) school. A total Purposive selected of 197 samples were recruited from secondary school students at Ban Kumuang (On-Anukro) school, Kumuang subdistrict, Warin Chamrab district, Ubon Ratchathani province in 2018. Data were collected by questionnaires and knowledge testing. The content validity was 0.7 and 1.0 respectively. The reliability questionnaires of the prevention behavior of Gingivitis by Cronbach’s Alpha method was 0.7. The reliability of knowledge testing by KR - 20 was 0.7. The data was analyzed by descriptive statistics. The results showed that secondary school students had the prevention behavior of Gingivitis at a moderate level (69.5 %). The most prevention behaviors that a student perform were brushing their teeth after waking up in the morning (86.3%). The behavior that the students had never performed were using floss after brushing (60.9%). Most of students 54.8 % had knowledge of Gingivitis at a high level. The knowledge that students answer correctly was Gingivitis causing bleeding when brushing their teeth (95.4%) and the incorrectly was hormone changing in adolescents may be a contributing cause of Gingivitis (60.4%). To encourage students to have good oral health care behaviors and good knowledge of oral health care will prevent Gingivitis and reduced the tendency of developing Gingivitis in adulthood.