Summary
The objective of this study was to determine the efficiency of the educational technique Development of Skills to improve the knowledge of oral health of mothers and reduce the index of oral hygiene in pre-school. A quasiexperimental study was conducted. A validated questionnaire on knowledge of oral health was given to 84 mothers before and after the application of the educational technologies Development of Skills and Explanatory (control group). The mothers were assigned to the experimental and the control groups in random form. Was evaluated oral hygiene of their pre-school children from the start, to 30 days and to 60 days, using the simplified of Greene-Vermillion index. Initially the average level of knowledge of oral health went from 6.57 for the experimental group and 6.55 for the group control. After the intervention the mean of the experimental group was 11.88 and for the control group 8.48, with a statistically significant difference (p<0.001). As regards to oral hygiene, average index at baseline, 30 and 60 days in the experimental group were 2.51, 1.14 and 0.73 while in the control group were 2.51, 2.02 and 1.69 respectively. There were statistically significant differences between groups at 30 and 60 days (p <0.001). The technique Development of Skills demonstrated to be more effective in the increase of the level of knowledge of oral health of mothers and in the decrease of the index of oral hygiene in pre-schoolers.
KEY WORDS: knowledge, mothers, oral health, oral hygiene index.
How to cite this article
MUÑOZ-CABRERA, W. E. & MATTOS-VELA, M. A. Educational technique to improve the knowledge of oral health of mothers and reduce the index of oral hygiene of preschoolers. Int. J. Odontostomat., 9(2):321-327, 2015.
