Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude and Practice (KAP) of Parents Towards Childhood Dental Caries Attending Pediatrics and Dental Clinic at ALERT Center, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, January 2018

 

Objectives

Introduction: Early childhood caries (ECC) is defined as the presence of 1 or more decayed, missing or filled tooth surfaces in any primary tooth in a child 71 month or younger. It is the most common chronic disease in young children and may develop as soon as teeth erupt, and cavities may be visible as early as 10 months of age.

Objective: To assess the knowledge, attitude and practice of parents towards childhood Dental caries: who attends Pediatrics and Dental Clinic at ALERT center. Methods: Institutional based cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted from August to November 2017. A total of 262 samples was collected a means of consecutive sampling technique. SPSS version 20.0 software was used for analysis. The relationship between parents’ KAP and various risk factors was tested in using Chi-square, OR, AOR and P-value. Binary and multiple logistic regressions was tested to check the significant association between study variable. P-value less than 0.05 was considered as to be correlation or an association. 

Result: The overall good knowledge, attitude and practice score of the parents was, 78.2%, 72.5% and 61.8% respectively. The attitude care giver showed as strong association to their child AOR 95%CI 5.16(1.48-17.96), (P = 0.01). The practice of parents showed statistically significant and has weak association (AOR<1, 95% CI) with age group (P <0.05).

Conclusion: The Oral health knowledge and attitude among the participants was relatively high but the role of parental practices on prevention method was low

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