Knowledge and Attitudes of Parents of Children with Nursing Bottle Syndrome in Serdang, Malaysia.

Abstract

A study was conducted to investigate the relationship between the parents' level of knowledge, and their attitudes to nursing bottle syndrome. Of 284 children aged 2-6 years clinically examined, 153 were diagnosed as having nursing bottle syndrome based on the criterion that at least one upper maxillary incisor was affected by caries. The parents of the 153 affected children were then interviewed by questionnaire . The findings suggested that parents had adequate knowledge and a positive attitude towards maintaining satisfactory dental care for their children. However, these attitudes were not reflected in the dental health of their children. The implications of these findings are discussed.

The relationship between socio-demographic characteristics and dental health knowledge and attitudes of parents with young children

“…The results are similar to those found by other studies [5][6][7][8]10,13,16,19,27,33 in that socio-demographic characteristics have been found to affect dental health knowledge and attitudes. The findings confirm that parents from Asian families, those living in deprived areas and parents who have had no further education all have less chance of having high levels of dental knowledge and positive dental attitudes.…”

Early Childhood Caries: Parent’s Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Towards Its Prevention in Malaysia

“…The results of this study show that knowledge is not necessarily translated into good practices, indicating lack of motivation among parents (Berkowitz, 2003), as seen in other studies (Amin & Harrison, 2009;Rajab et al, 2002;Syahrial et al, 1995) . Cultural practices specific to the region can be one of the obstacles to improvement in attitudes and oral health practices among the public (Amin & Harrison, 2009;Ismail, 2003).…”

“…We hypothesize that the problem of high prevalence of ECC in Malaysia may to be due to poor knowledge, attitudes and practice towards factors associated with ECC. So far, one study done in Serdang, Malaysia found that parents of children with early childhood caries had adequate knowledge and positive attitude towards maintaining satisfactory dental care in their pre-school children (Syahrial et al, 1995). However, practice among these parents was not evaluated.…”

Nursing habits and early childhood caries in children attending Hospital University Science Malaysia (HUSM)

“…This reality can be due to the fact that most of the mothers had received the information about children's oral health but they were not practicing the proper way to nurse their child and taking care of their child's teeth. The study of Syahril et al 11 also revealed that these attitude were not reflected in the dental health status of their children, eventhough parents had adequate knowledge and positive attitude to their children's dental care.…”