Educational Intervention on Pediatricians’ Knowledge, Attitude and Practice on Child Oral Health: A Hospital Based Longitudinal Study

Background: Pediatricians provide multiple early childhood screenings and are in a privileged position to promote child oral health by enacting timely dental referrals. Our primary objective included assessing the pre- post- educational intervention knowledge, attitude practice of pediatricians on health. The secondary assessment prevalence problems children attending Pediatrics out-patient department (OPD). Methods: This one-year hospital based longitudinal study involved conveniently selected 400 (6 months 14-years-old) from OPD 12 (complete enumeration) university hospital, BPKIHS, Dharan, Nepal. Screening for was performed. Pre- post-educational knowledge towards were assessed using validated questionnaire. component through questionnaire post-intervention referral paper practice. Data analysis descriptive statistics, chi-square paired t-tests. Results: Educational significantly increased score but not their (p = 0.72) or Oral observed 59.3% pediatrics OPD, caries being most prevalent (49.9%). Conclusion: More than half had problems. effective improving pediatricians’