COMPARISION OF ORAL HEALTH ATTITUDE, KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICE AMONG 8-14 YEARS OLD, SCHOOL GOING CHILDREN IN SHOPIAN, JAMMU & KASHMIR AND MEERUT, UTTAR PRADESH. A CROSS SECTIONAL STUDY.

Dr Shakir Hussain Rather, Dr Shabir Raq, Dr Abhaya Agarwal, Dr Umer Farooq

Abstract


Aim:  To Assess the Oral health Attitude, Knowledge and Practice among 8-14 years old, School Going children in Shopian, Jammu & Kashmir and Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India. Materials and Methods: The subjects for this study were randomly selected from five private and five government schools in the age group of 8-14 years. A total of 1000 children were selected both males and females through Cluster sampling, with age group of 8 to 14 years Government and Private school going children both male and female had been selected. Self structured questionnaire used by Al-Omiri MK, Al-Wahadni, Saeed KN. The questionnaire includes  questions without names and is used to evaluate oral health status, knowledge, attitudes and practice among school going children. Results: Overall the level of knowledge score was statistically significant with P = 0.001. Conclusion: The overall level of oral health knowledge among the surveyed children was low.


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Oral Health, WHO, children, India.

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