Madusha P Weeratunga, Mark Mayo, Mirjam Kaestli, Bart J Currie
Melioidosis Knowledge Awareness in Three Distinct Groups in the Tropical Northern Territory of Australia
Tropical medicine and infectious disease
children disabilities generally face poorer oral health outcomes compared nondisabled peers due range factors including inadequate oral hygiene infrequent dental visits systemic barriers accessing care ethnographic study explored perspectives caregivers professionals identify ways children disabilities included oral health purposive sample 10 caregivers mothers disabled children aged 915 years five healthcare providers five educators saudi arabia participated data collection used participant observation semistructured indepth interviews data analysed using reflexive thematic analysis findings suggest mothers lacked supportive environment develop skills knowledge oral health care preventing including children oral health inaccessible services added exclusion mothers children dental professionals exhibited poor communication skills discriminatory attitudes towards children problematising mothers educators tended discuss disabled children terms inability displaying deficit approach impairment evidence suggests exclusion mothers oral health impact enable children recommendations include adopting social model disability dental education policies saudi arabia address inequalities provision support education focusing societal barriers moves towards inclusion rather conceptualising disability individual problem