DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2018.v06i03.015

Pages: 583-591

Caregivers’ awareness on health oriented attitudes that help to reduce caries is essential factor in the prevention and control of caries in children. This research aimed to determine the awareness and knowledge of Sudanese care-givers concerning health oriented attitudes which reduce the risk of the development of dental caries in children below 13years. A cross-sectional community based study of 103caregivers of children below13years were selected randomly from Khartoum, Sudan. An interviewer administered questionnaire used to assess the care-givers dental health knowledge and practice in relation to care givers exposure to dental health and education. Data were processed and analyzed by means of the IBM Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20 Chicago. The significance was taken for P-value ≤ 0.05. The results were found that a majority of participants 79.6% had heard the importance of children dental hygiene and majority 83.5% took part in supervision of their child brushing but still their health oriented attitudes to control dental caries to children below 13yrs was still low as depicted by other factors revealed by the our recent study, like 48.5% caregiver not taking their children to dental clinic, the high number of caregivers poor response on tooth color change as 39.8% believe new ones will come and also the high percentage 53.4% of caregivers poor practice of giving sweets at a frequency of every four to six hours.