fa Evaluation of oral hygiene care of under 4 years old children by their mothers based on the Health Belief Model کودکان Pediatric Dentistry پژوهشي Research <p style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 250)"><strong style="margin: 0px padding: 0px border: 0px"><i style="margin: 0px padding: 0px border: 0px">Objective: </i></strong>Oral health is one of the basic components of preschool children's health. Young children completely depend on their parents, specially their mothers, to have an appropriate oral health. Health belief model shows the relationship between some structures related to personal perceptions, barriers and perceived self-efficiency, and behavior. This study aims to determine the oral health care status of children under 4 by their mother according to health belief model in Tehran.</p><p style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 250)"> <strong style="margin: 0px padding: 0px border: 0px"><i style="margin: 0px padding: 0px border: 0px"> Methods: </i></strong>In this cross-sectional (descriptive-analytic) study, 200 mothers with children under 4 who visited health care centers under the authority of Shahid Beheshti University of medical Sciences were randomly chosen. A questionnaire which was designed according to health belief model (HBM) was used to collect data. Collected data was analyzed by SPSS software.</p><p style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 250)"> <strong style="margin: 0px padding: 0px border: 0px"><i style="margin: 0px padding: 0px border: 0px"> Results: </i></strong>It was found that only in 10% of the cases knowledge score was favorable. Participants scored 50.85%, 75.93%, 72.23%, 92.06%, 48.2%, 86.31%, 64.07% in knowledge structures, perceived susceptibility, perceived severity , perceived benefits, perceived barriers, self efficiency and behavior respectively. Knowledge structures (p<0.01, r=0. 276), perceived barriers ( p< 0/01 , r= 0/314) and perceived self efficiency (p<0.01, r=0.269) showed positive correspondence and significant relationship with the oral and dental health behaviors by their mothers. Structures of health belief model could describe 17.9% of behavior variance. Amongst these structures, perceived barriers had more important role.</p><strong style="margin: 0px padding: 0px border: 0px font-size: 11px line-height: 24.2000007629395px background-color: rgb(239, 243, 250)"><i style="margin: 0px padding: 0px border: 0px">Conclusion: </i></strong><span style="font-size: 11px line-height: 24.2000007629395px background-color: rgb(239, 243, 250)">This study estimated that the behavioral status of oral and dental health care of children under 4 by their mothers is moderate. Therefore planning an educational program using behavioral models and theories, such as health belief model is suggested, so that it can increase knowledge and self-efficiency and reduce perceptive barriers to promote children's oral health.</span><hr><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left direction: ltr unicode-bidi: embed"><b>Source: </b>Journal of Dental School Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left direction: ltr unicode-bidi: embed"><a href="http://jds.sbmu.ac.ir/browse.php?a_id=1367&sid=1&slc_lang=en" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff">Full Text</font></a></p> Children, Health Belief Model, Mothers, Oral health, 0 0 http://idai.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-32-2940&slc_lang=fa&sid=1 Mohammad Hossein Baghiani Moghadam 100319475328460013669 100319475328460013669 No Mahnoosh Mozaffarian Azad mahnooshmozaffarian@yahoo.com 100319475328460013670 100319475328460013670 Yes MinaBiria Associate Professor 100319475328460013671 100319475328460013671 No Siamak Sabour 100319475328460013672 100319475328460013672 No