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Aims and objectives: The aim of study was to evaluate the impact of family background, income of parents and parental education on child’s knowledge score regarding dental caries and oral health practices. Materials & methods: The study was conducted in two schools of Mandi Gobindgarh. The target population of the study was the school children within the age group of 10 to 12 years Based on the selection criteria 80 subjects (40 from urban school, 40 from rural school) were considered as the samples for the study. Data was collected to analyze knowledge score of school children and impact of different family characteristics on knowledge score of children.
Results and conclusions: The knowledge of school children regarding prevention of dental caries was in adequate. Majority of the respondents were belonging to Sikh religion (88.8%) and from nuclear family (77.5%). Majority of the mother were housewives (72.5%). Among Parents (38.8%) were illiterate. Urban school children had more knowledge on dental caries than rural school children. Children from Urban school showed 2.5% (poor), 27.5% (average), 65% (good) knowledge and children from Rural school showed 7.5% (poor), 27.5%(average), 0.0% (good). The Mean knowledge score was 57.04%.
It was found that area of residence, education of father and mother of child and income of parents have association with knowledge score of children for prevention of caries. There was no impact of type of family and number of children in a family on dental caries knowledge score of children.
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Desh Bhagat University,
Off to NH-44, Amloh Road, Mandi Gobindgarh,
District Fatehgarh Sahib, Punjab- 147301, India