Saudi Journal of Nursing and Health Care (SJNHC)
Volume-1 | Issue-03 | 113-118
Original Research Article
Oral Hygiene, Knowledge, Attitude and Practice among Nursing Students at Public Tertiary Care Hospital, Lahore
Iram Yaseen, Afsar Ali, Roma Bhatti, Amna shehzadi
Published : June 30, 2018
Abstract
Oral health enables an individual to speak, eat and socialize without active
disease. Oral hygiene is the process of keeping oral free from pathological condition
that affects gum disease, mouth ulcers and sores and cavities. Oral health affects the
overall health of individuals, so it is very important to maintain oral hygiene.
Knowledge, attitude and practice regarding oral-health are considered to be
important requirements for improving oral health. To determine oral hygiene
experience among students and describe their level of oral health knowledge, attitude
and practice of oral hygiene. A cross-sectional analytical study design was used to
examine the knowledge, attitude and practice of students regarding oral hygiene. A
cross-sectional is that study that collects information from a population at specific
time of period. Data was collected from 150 nursing students through convenient
sampling techniques. Those who meet the inclusion criteria will be included in the
study and those who don’t meet the criteria wasnot be the part of the study. Data was
analyzed through SPSS version 21. Results suggest that there was satisfactory
knowledge that is more than 80% of the study participants had knowledge about
different knowledge based statements. The attitude and practices were some
moderately around 50 to 60% of participants fall in this category. Overall knowledge
was good but attitude and practices were low comparatively.