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Challenges of Iranian adolescents for preventing dental caries
Arezoo Fallahi1, Fazlollah Ghofranipour1, Fazlollah Ahmadi2
1Department of Health Education, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, IR Iran.
Background:
Oral health plays a vital role in people's general health and well-being. With regard to the costly treatments of oral diseases, preventive programs need to be designed for dental caries based on children's perspectives.
Objectives:
The purpose of this study was to describe and explore challenges for caring dental health based on children's perspectives.
Patients And Methods:
A qualitative design with content analysis approach was applied to collect and analyze the perspectives of students about factors influencing oral and dental care. Eighteen Iranian students in 8 guidance schools were chosen through the purposive sampling. Semi-structured interviews were held for data gathering. In order to support the validity and rigor of the data, different criteria such as acceptability, confirmability, and transferability were utilized.
Results:
During data analysis, four main themes developed: "barriers to dental health," "maintaining dental health," "uncertainty in decision-making" and "supportive factors". "Uncertainty in decision-making" and "barriers to dental health" were the main challenges for preventing dental caries among adolescents.
Conclusions:
"Certainty in decision-making" to maintain dental health depends on overcoming the barriers of dental health. Further research is needed to confirm the findings of this study.
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