Oral Health Knowledge and Oral Hygiene Practices among Private and Public School Teachers of Karachi City
Keywords:
Private and public school teachers, oral health knowledge, oral hygiene practicesAbstract
Background: Oral health education and promotion at the level of school is considered as priority for schoolchildren since primary level of learning begins from school. Furthermore, school-teachers serve as an institution for motivating their school-children on daily basis to achieve healthy principles of living. In addition, it has also been suggested that spreading oral health awareness by approaching school-teachers have shown to be cost effective and practical policy.
Objective: To determine school-teacher's oral health knowledge and oral hygiene practices among private
and public schools of Karachi city.
Methodlogy: A cross sectional study of 165 school-teachers, were conducted among nine different towns of Karachi city. At the first stage, nine towns out of eighteen towns were selected randomly through cluster sampling. In the next stage, from each selected town one private and one public school were identified randomly. Selection of school-teachers were performed through non probability convenience sampling. After selection subjects were requested to fill a validated self reported structured close ended questionnaire related to their oral health knowledge and oral hygiene practices.
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