Qiwei Wu, Pingting Zhu, Qiaoying Ji, Guanghui Shi, Meiyan Qian, HuiWen Xu, Xinyue Gu, Wen Wang, Qianqian Zhang
The effect of death education course utilizing constructivist learning theory on first grade undergraduate nursing student attitudes and coping abilities towards death: A mixed study design
Nurse education today
occupation significantly influences oral health factors like work environment stress levels access dental care jobrelated habits playing crucial roles oral health construction workers especially migrant workers noteworthy concern understanding oral health population crucial enhancing quality life various means study aimed investigate prevalence dental caries oral hygiene status deleterious habits occupational group belagavi district karnataka study design crosssectional nature commencement study pilot study conducted multistage random sampling technique employed 610 participants recruited study trained calibrated examiners recorded dentition status treatment needs 2013 oral hygiene index simplified ohis collected data analyzed using descriptive analysis chisquare oneway anova multiple linear regression analysis prevalence dental caries among construction workers significantly high 81 poor oral hygiene observed among 369 prevalence smoking tobacco chewing habit alcohol consumption among construction workers found 216 599 373 respectively dependence ohis dmft predictors age gender deleterious habits found 215 396 respectively migrant construction workers belagavi high caries prevalence poor oral hygiene status high prevalence deleterious habits tobacco use results emphasize necessity awareness dental health education programs improve oral health construction workers