Little is known about the role of maternal oral health and its potential impact on the health of pregnant women. This study aimed to assess knowledge, attitude and practices of women regarding oral and dental healthcare during pregnancy. A cross-sectional descriptive research design was adopted for this study. This study was conducted at MCH centers in Minia city (first child health center MCH center and west MCH center). A purposive sample of 300 pregnant women who had not any medical disorder was included in this study. Data were collected through four tools: Structured interviewing questionnaire, Knowledge Questionnaire sheet, women's attitude by the likert scale, and women's self-practices assessment tool, the study revealed that large proportion of pregnant women had poor knowledge, more than half of them had positive attitude about oral health, and more than half of them had poor practice regarding oral health care during pregnancy. The study concluded that there was lack of oral health knowledge and practices related to oral and dental healthcare among pregnant women. The study recommended that health education & awareness and stress on follow up programs should be carried out during pregnancy in order to motivate and educate pregnant women about importance of good oral health; further researches are needed to investigate the effect of bad oral care on pregnancy outcome
Sexuality is a process that involves the integration of different organ systems and requires neurologic, vascular and endocrine coordination. This study aimed to determine the various types of sexual and urinary disorders among asymptomatic woman in different social levels and identify the high-risk factors, which will be more likely to have these sexual and urinary disorders. Descriptive analytic design was used for this study. A systematic random sample was consecutively recruited in this study. conducted in Minia University Hospitals Results: mean age of studied group was 30.2 ± 6.3 years, more than half of them lives in urban area, near to half of them have university education and their marriage aged ranged between 15-24 years and mean of marriage period 10.09 ± 7.0 years. Regarding total score of female sexual function index the majority of studied group not FSD and the minority of them FSD. Also, there were negative fair association between studied age and sensation of pain during sexual activity, and the marriage period with desired, arousal, satisfaction domain, and total FSFI. Conclusion: The most frequent dysfunction domains among studied group were sexual pain 22.0%, followed by 16.0% sexual desire, then 14.0% sexual arousal, 11.0% lubrication domain, 10.9% orgasm, 5.0% satisfaction domain, and 10.6% of them had FSD. The main risk factor can lead to FSD were age of studied group and duration period of marriage. Recommendation: Develop training program for asymptomatic women with sexual disorders and urinary incontinence to know the most frequent dysfunction and how to deal with it.
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