Assessment of Oral Health Knowledge, Attitude and Practice among School Children in Kathmandu Metropolitan City, Nepal

Abstract

Oral health is an important aspect of general health in children and affects the quality of life and health outcomes. This study aims to trace out the oral health knowledge, attitude and practices among the schoolchildren in Kathmandu Metropolitan city together with the association of these variables to sociodemographic factors and to assess the oral health status of children with its influencing factors. This cross-sectional study included 450 school children of age group 12-15 years from eight different (community and private) schools from different localities of metropolitan city. It was found that out of total participants Most of the participants (79.8%) had high knowledge, almost all had positive attitude but only less than half (42.2%) had adequate practice towards oral health. Moreover, the prevalence of oral health problem is 57.6%. The study concludes that in spite of good oral hygiene, satisfactory knowledge and positive attitude towards oral hygiene in children, they have not good practice of oral hygiene. The study will also serve as a reference value for use in future evaluation to help measure the effectiveness of the planned activities.

Keywords: Dental caries, Oral health Status (OHS), knowledge, attitude, school children, chi-square test, binary logistic

Cite this Article
S. Silwal , P. Uprety . Assessment of Oral
Health Knowledge, Attitude and Practice
among School Children in Kathmandu
Metr opolitan City, Nepal. Research &
Reviews: Journal of Statistics . 2019; 8(3):
1 10 p.