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Oral Health Educational Program for Knowledge, Attitude and Practice (KAP) of Oral Health among a group of Egyptian School Girls in Ras Sedr – South Sinai: A Before and After study
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Aim: to assess the efficiency of oral health education program on oral health knowledge, attitude, practice and oral hygiene status among 12-14-years-old preparatory schoolgirls in Ras-Sed, South Sinai, Egypt. Methodology: A before and after study was conducted among (n= 260) school girls in four preparatory schools in Ras-Sedr, South Sinai, Egypt from September 2019 to December 2019. Before the oral health education program, the girls were assessed for their oral health knowledge, attitude and practice using a self-administrated questionnaire and their oral hygiene status was assessed using Oral Hygiene Index Simplified. Oral health education program was then provided using tailor made posters and audiovisual aids. Follow-up was performed after 3 months using the same questionnaire and oral hygiene index simplified was recorded after that. Results: it was found that before oral health education program, knowledge of the girls was (57%), attitude (73%) and practice (33%), after oral health education program the knowledge, attitude and practice of the girls improvedto (74%), (76%) and (37%) respectively. iv Mean ± SD of (OHIS) was (1.05±0.36) before oral health education program but unfortunately it increased to (1.49±1.53) after oral health education program. Conclusions: The oral health educational program improved the girl{u2019}s knowledge, attitude, and practice but more efforts should be performed towards the oral health of school children in Egypt