Oral Health Awareness and Practices of School Going Children Aged 11 to 16 Years in a Squatter Settlement of Karachi
Objective: To assess the awareness and practices of school going children aged 11 to 16 years regarding oral health and hygiene in a squatter settlement of Karachi. Methods: Data of this cross sectional study was collected by self administered questionnaire from school students of Gulshan e Sikande...
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Objective: To assess the awareness and practices of school going children aged 11 to 16 years regarding oral health and hygiene in a squatter settlement of Karachi.
Methods: Data of this cross sectional study was collected by self administered questionnaire from school students of Gulshan e Sikanderabad, a squatter settlement in Karachi. Sample size of 204 was selected by simple random sampling and school going children aged 11 to 16 years were included in the study. The data was analyzed by SPSS version 20.
Results: Total 204 students were included in this study with mean age of 14.5 + 1.9 years, of them 140 (68.6%) were males and 64 (31.4%) were females. Significant difference (p= 0.001) was found between the practices and beliefs of students regarding oral health and hygiene. It was observed that gum bleeding, foul smelling, dental caries, plaque formation and tooth loosening were the most common problems faced by almost half of the school students. Chalia (Areca nut) was consumed by majority i.e. 113 (55.4%) of the school students. Cigarette, Gutka and Naswar were also consumed less frequently than chalia but still by notable
proportion of students.
Conclusion: Students from the schools of this squatter settlement were aware of the importance of maintaining oral health and hygiene and practice them as well; however they were also involved in consuming oral substance abuse despite knowing the damaging outcome of these substances.
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| spelling | doaj.art-7aaee236747647c185e6f48d1c7c478f2023-05-29T03:10:31ZengDow University of Health SciencesJournal of the Dow University of Health Sciences1995-21982410-21802015-08-0192Oral Health Awareness and Practices of School Going Children Aged 11 to 16 Years in a Squatter Settlement of KarachiMuhammad Shahzad Ali0Talal HussainGati Ara1Nosheen Zehra2Ziauddin University, Karachi, Pakistan.Department of Community Health Sciences, Ziauddin University, Karachi, Pakistan. Department of Community Health Sciences, Ziauddin University, Karachi, Pakistan. Objective: To assess the awareness and practices of school going children aged 11 to 16 years regarding oral health and hygiene in a squatter settlement of Karachi. Methods: Data of this cross sectional study was collected by self administered questionnaire from school students of Gulshan e Sikanderabad, a squatter settlement in Karachi. Sample size of 204 was selected by simple random sampling and school going children aged 11 to 16 years were included in the study. The data was analyzed by SPSS version 20. Results: Total 204 students were included in this study with mean age of 14.5 + 1.9 years, of them 140 (68.6%) were males and 64 (31.4%) were females. Significant difference (p= 0.001) was found between the practices and beliefs of students regarding oral health and hygiene. It was observed that gum bleeding, foul smelling, dental caries, plaque formation and tooth loosening were the most common problems faced by almost half of the school students. Chalia (Areca nut) was consumed by majority i.e. 113 (55.4%) of the school students. Cigarette, Gutka and Naswar were also consumed less frequently than chalia but still by notable proportion of students. Conclusion: Students from the schools of this squatter settlement were aware of the importance of maintaining oral health and hygiene and practice them as well; however they were also involved in consuming oral substance abuse despite knowing the damaging outcome of these substances. https://www.jduhs.com/index.php/jduhs/article/view/1458 |
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