Effat Khodadadi|Ayshe Niknahad|Mohammad Mehdi Naghibi Sistani|Mina Motallebnejad
Parents' Oral Health Literacy and its Impact on their Children’s Dental Health Status
Babol University of Medical Sciences|Babol University of Medical Sciences|Babol University of Medical Sciences|Babol University of Medical Sciences
introduction parents play key role childrens dental health aim study determine relationship parents oral health literacy ohl childrens dental health status babol iranmethods cross sectional study total 384 children aged 21 months 84 months attended dental clinic babol university medical sciences september 2015 february 2016 examinedwe measured dmft index primary dentition examination accompanying parent completed oral health literacyadults questionnairecomparing mean analysis oneway analysis variance anova independentsamples ttest served compare childrens dental caries missing dental fillings mean differences subgroupsin addition relationship ohl childrens dental caries dental fillings assessed using multiple linear regression models controlling socioeconomic demographic factorsall data analyzed spss version 22 results childrens mean age 551 months sd 137 47 girlsmean childrens dental caries missing filling mean dmft index 65 04 12 82 respectivelyparents inadequate ohl children dental caries p0005however relation significance controlling background factorsincreasing childrens dental fillings significantly related families living urban regions p00195 ci 011 112 parents adequate ohl p00295 ci 008 105conclusion inadequate parents ohl associated children high dental caries less dental fillingstherefore providing interventions improve parents ohl would valuable childrens dental health promotion programs especially countries developing oral health system