title: [Dental health attitudes among grade 6 schoolchildren in Thapsakae district of Prachubkirikhan province].
abstract: The objective of this research is to study dental health attitudes among grade 6 Schoolchildren in Thapsakae District of Prachubkirikhan Province. The measurement of attitude is Likert Method. The total sample size was 235 Schoolchildren in the schools which were selected 2 schools per Tambon by simple random sampling method. There were 125 male Schoolchildren and 110 female Schoolchildren. The average age was 12.1 years. The results from this study showed that the average attitude score was 3.53 that may be regarded as fair. No statistical difference was found between male and female groups (P greater than 0.05). But there was significantly different according to Intelligence level (P less than 0.05). In addition results revealed that there were some wrong attitudes in dental health that should be improved.
authors.affiliation: Dental Public Health Section, Thapsakae Hospital, Prachubkirikhan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Jongkittinarukorn
mesh_terms: D001294:Attitude to Health; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009909:Oral Health; D013785:Thailand