Literature Review

Annotated Bibliography

Aljafari, A., Gallagher, J., & Hosey, M. (2017). Can oral health education be delivered to high-caries-risk children and their parents using a computer game? – A randomised controlled trial. International journal of pediatric dentistry , 27(6), 476-485. Retrieved February 26, 2018, fromhttp://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ipd.12286

This study was conducted because of a request made by families of children undergoing general anesthesia for tooth decay management, the requested was to create oral health advice using a media other than one-on-one education. Therefore a team of researchers from England health department conducted a study on 4-10 year-old children who had tooth decay. They divided children into 2 groups and gave one group oral health advice using a computer game and the other with one-on-one education. The researchers rated their outcome measure with, parent and child satisfaction with education method, improvements in child's dietary knowledge; and changes in child's diet and toothbrushing habits. They concluded that one-on-one education and computer game education were somewhat equally satisfactory in giving kids oral health advice. This study can be used in deciding which method is best used in teaching oral health.

Bhardwaj VinayKumar. (2012). Impact of school-based health education program on oral health go 12 and 15 years old school children. Journal of Education and Health Promotion, 2(1), 33. http://doi.org/10.4103/2277-9531.115820

Researchers at the Department of Public Health Dentistry in Government Dental college and hospital of India conducted a study of the effectiveness of oral education programs. Their study focused on assessing the impact of oral health education on the status of plaque, gingival health and dental caries among two hundred and seventy six 12 and 15 years old school kids. They found that short-term oral health education is useful in improving oral hygiene and gingival health. This experiment can be used to show the importance of oral health education and why it should be mandatory.

Panic, K., Cauberghe, V., & De Pelsmacker, P. (2014). Promoting dental hygiene to children: comparing traditional and interactive media following

threat appeals. Journal Of Health Communication, 19(5), 561-576.

doi:10.1080/10810730.2013.821551

The authors of this journal, investigators in the faculty of social and political science of Ghent University, compared the effectiveness of using traditional media to teach children oral health related information with the effectiveness of using computer games as a teaching method. They conducted a study with 190 children (7-9 years old) in which they tested the impact of an interactive game of an interactive game as way to teach basic oral health to the impact of a traditional lecture as a media. After comparing the results of a final oral knowledge test, the researchers concluded that the group who played an interactive game as way to learn basic oral knowledge overall had better scores than those who learned through a lecture. This journal can be tied to the journal below, which talks about the different oral health education practices used in schools.

Shirzad, M., Taghdisi, M. H., Dehdari, T., & Abolghasemi, J. (2016). Oral health education program among pre-school children: an application of health-promoting schools approach. Health Promotion Perspectives, 6(3),164-170. doi:10.15171/hpp.2016.26

This journal recounts a qusi-experimental study that was conducted by a team of researchers in the seventh district of Tahran, Iran. The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of using the Albanian’s Health Promoting Schools Model (which uses video, game based lecture and interactive competitions) with traditional lecture. The study was conducted on 120 female Iranians ages (5-6 years old). The researchers concluded that uing Albanian’s health-promoting schools (HPSs) approach was the most useful in improving the oral hygiene behaviors among the preschool children. This journal relates to Gallagher’s journal, which is a study that also compares the effectiveness of game based oral health education.

Soussou, R. (2017). Waiting room time: An opportunity for parental oral health education. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 108(3), 251-256. doi:10.17269/cjph.108.5984

Researchers at the Children’s Dental Program in the Canadian department of public health wanted to enhance the preventative component of dental treatment for low-income children. They wanted to develop a “waiting-room” based dental education program that will be viewed by caregivers of children in low-income families during their visit to a public clinic. They developed a caregiver-centered interactive PowerPoint educational presentation and after the presentation they assessed the caregivers knowledge on the proper way to install good oral hygiene routine for their kids. Their conclusion was based of their assessment of the program’s feasibility, acceptability and effectiveness. They inferred that a dental education program designed to engage caregivers in waiting rooms was a feasible, acceptable and effective strategy that can be used to improve children’s oral health. This report can be used to show the different methods to teach oral health.

Memarpour, M., Dadaein, S., Fakhraei, E., Vossoughi, M. (2016). Comparison of oral health education and fluoride varnish to prevent early childhood caries: a randomized trial. Caries Research, 50(5), 433-443. Doi:10.1159/000446877

This journal focused on preventing early childhood caries (children under 3 years old). Researchers at the Department of Pediatric Dentistry in Shiraz University of Iran wanted to evaluate the efficacy of oral health education and a fluoride varnish in the prevention of caries in children. They designed a single-blind randomized clinical trial with 300 hundred children aged (12-24 months) in which they tested three variable groups; control, oral counseling, and oral counseling with fluoride varnish treatment. They concluded that the best method for caries prevention is oral counseling coupled with use of fluoride varnish. This document can be used to show how oral health education can be used as a preventative method for caries in children.