A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY TO ASSESS DENTAL HYGIENE PRACTICES AMONG THE CHILDREN OF SELECTED PRIMARY SCHOOL OF JAITO SARJA

Ms. Rintu Chaturvedi

Volume : VII, Issue : V, May - 2018

A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY TO ASSESS DENTAL HYGIENE PRACTICES AMONG THE CHILDREN OF SELECTED PRIMARY SCHOOL OF JAITO SARJA

Ms. Rintu Chaturvedi

Abstract :

A descriptive study was conducted to assess thedental hygiene practices of children at primary school, Jaito Sarja, Batala. The research design used in this study was descriptive research design.Total 100 children of primary schoolwere selected by convenient sampling.The tool used for study was self–structured questionnaires related to dental hygiene practices. Major findings of the study revealed that50(50%) of school children had fair dental hygiene practices, 48(48%) had gooddental hygiene practices whereas 2(2%) had poor dental hygiene practices and no one had excellent dental hygiene practices. The association between dental hygiene practices of primary school children and their demographic variables such as Age, Class, Religion, Parental Occupation and Source of informationwere found to be statistically significant whereas gender and parental education were found to be statistically non–significant. Hence the research hypothesis H₁ stating that �There will be significant association between dental hygiene practices and their selected demographic variables� was accepted at 0.05 levels.