Praveena, T (2012) A Study to Correlate the Selected Risk Factors and Level of Dental Caries among School Age Children in Selected Schools at Dharapuram with a View to Prepare a Self Instructional Module on Prevention of Dental Caries. Masters thesis, Bishop’s College of Nursing, Dharapuram.
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Abstract
In India, school health survey identified that the common health problem among school children are malnutrition, infectious diseases, intestinal parasites, disease of skin, eye and ear and dental caries. Dental caries is one of the most common health problems among school children. So they recommended that a school health program should have provision for dental examination, at least once a year. Nurses take part in the teaching of dental hygiene to the teachers, children as well as parents. The study was aimed to correlate the selected risk factors and level of dental caries among school age children in selected schools at Dharapuram. The research approach used for the study was descriptive approach. The research design used for the study was descriptive correlational design. Conceptual framework adopted in the present study was the modified Dorothea.E.Orem self care deficit theory of nursing (2001). The 6-10 year old school age children were selected by non probability convenience sampling technique. Dental caries was assessed by using international caries detection assessment system (2008). Risk factors were assessed by using rating scale. After the data collection the prevalence of dental caries was 548 out of 870 school age children. At the end of the data collection self instructional module regarding prevention of dental caries was distributed to samples. Severe cases were instructed to go for further treatment of dental caries. With the help of SPSS package (16.0 version) the collected data were analyzed and tabulated by using descriptive and inferential statistics. The data analysis showed that 78 children had early decay, 152 children had established decay and 318 children had severe decay .The mean and standard deviation for selected risk factors among affected and unaffected school age children were 42.63 (SD±6.22) and 50.45 (SD±7.31) respectively. The Z value for selected risk factors were 16.13 (p<0.05) level, which denotes that there was a significant difference in risk factors of dental caries between affected and unaffected school age children. There was a negative correlation (r= -0.211) between the selected risk factors and level of dental caries among affected school age children. There was no significant association of the selected risk factors of dental caries among affected school age children with their selected demographic variables except for age of the child ild (χ 2 =22.205), area of residence (χ 2 =8.718) and family history of dental caries (χ 2 =10.548). There was no significant association of the level of dental caries among affected school age children with their selected demographic variables. Logistic regression showed that there was a significant impact of risk factors (exponential B=0.988) on dental caries among school age children. The study findings revealed that adequate food and oral hygiene practices will helps to maintain the good dental health status of school age children.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Subjects: | NURSING > Paediatric Nursing |
| Depositing User: | Subramani R |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Aug 2020 17:23 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Feb 2022 09:13 |
| URI: | http://repository-tnmgrmu.ac.in/id/eprint/12869 |
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