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Effectiveness of methods of teaching dental health to 9‐ to 10‐year‐old schoolchildren in the United Kingdom
Author(s) -
Addy M.,
Edmunds Sandra
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
community dentistry and oral epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.061
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1600-0528
pISSN - 0301-5661
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0528.1977.tb01639.x
Subject(s) - medicine , dental health , recall , teaching hospital , health education , teaching method , family medicine , pediatrics , dentistry , public health , nursing , mathematics education , linguistics , mathematics , philosophy
Dental health education employing five different teaching methods was given to classes of 9‐ to 10‐year‐old schoolchildren. A control class received no teaching. The dental health knowledge of the classes was assessed before teaching, and immediately, 1 week and 3 months after teaching by the use of a questionnaire. All methods resulted in a variable increase in marks immediately after teaching. This was followed by a fall in marks for each class over the 3‐month period. The poster and pack methods of presenting information, overall, had little or no effect on the recall of information. The talk, visual aids and project methods all significantly increased dental health knowledge for the 3‐month period.