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Parental
supervised tooth brushing in children aged less than 8 years can be an
imperative preventive home-based oral health behavior for the prevention of
tooth caries.
A thorough
understanding of interventions aimed at home‐based oral health behaviours can
help to improve tailor future interventions and encourage oral health, deduced
a systematic review issued in International Journal of Paediatric Dentistry.
Elnaz Aliakbari and colleagues reviewed the
interventions encouraging tooth brushing practices under parental guidance for
the reduction of dental caries in young children aged less than 8 years.
Literature search included exploring the Web of Science, PubMed, MEDLINE,
EMBASE, PsycINFO, Scopus, and the Cochrane Library along with other references,
and unpublished literature records.
All in all 42 articles were included. Intervention content
was coded with the key domains focused being knowledge (in 41 articles), skills
(35 articles), and environmental context and resources (22 articles) with the
help of the Theoretical Domains Framework. There were limited reports of the intervention
development, delivery, and evaluation, with only 18 studies being supported by
theory. Mixed outcomes were found in 29 studies which discovered the influence
on caries.
Given a few interventions targeting oral
health behaviours at home encouraged by theory and methodological rigour in
their development and assessment,
the study investigators promoted further interventions to be directed by complex
intervention methodology.
International Journal of Paediatric Dentistry
Home-based toothbrushing interventions for parents of young children to reduce dental caries: A systematic review
Elnaz Aliakbari et al.
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