Effectiveness of planned health teaching programme on knowledge regarding oral hygiene among school children in the age group of 7-12 years

Raveena Bisht

Planned health teaching programme, knowledge, oral hygiene, school children.

Children are a nation's most fragile resource. Oral health is the condition of the mouth, teeth, and orofacial structures that allow people to carry out basic tasks like eating, breathing, and speaking. The study was conducted by using pre-experimental research design (one group pretest and posttest design). The sample consists of 60 school children from Government primary school Kuanwala, Doiwala, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India. The simple random sampling method was used to select the participants for this study. Moreover, the tool used for this study was structured knowledge questionnaire. Results of the study indicated that the level of knowledge regarding oral hygiene depicts that during pretest 31(51.7%) school children having moderately adequate knowledge followed by 29(48.3%) having inadequate knowledge. After intervention (planned health teaching programme) there was an improvement in the level of knowledge regarding oral hygiene that is on 3rd day, most of the school children 55(91.7%) having adequate knowledge and five (8.3%) having moderately adequate knowledge. The study concluded that the mean and standard deviation of level of knowledge regarding oral hygiene where the pretest score is 11.05±2.867 followed by post test score of day 3rd is 25.63±2.963. The t value is 27.568 (59) at 0.05 significant level which proves that the level of knowledge regarding oral hygiene of school children was effective.

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"Effectiveness of planned health teaching programme on knowledge regarding oral hygiene among school children in the age group of 7-12 years", IJSDR - International Journal of Scientific Development and Research (www.IJSDR.org), ISSN:2455-2631, Vol.9, Issue 12, page no.a455-a461, December-2024, Available :https://ijsdr.org/papers/IJSDR2412050.pdf

Volume 9 Issue 12, December-2024

Pages : a455-a461

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Research Area: Humanities All

Country: Noida, Delhi, India

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