title: Evaluation of knowledge, attitudes, and self-reported behaviors among 3-5 year old school children using an oral health and nutrition intervention.
abstract: METHODS
  Ninety 3-5 year old children, 43 in the control group and 47 in the intervention group, participated in the study. An age and developmental appropriate prop-based oral health and nutrition intervention program was used. Subjects in the intervention group received a pre-test, an 8-10 minute prop-supported intervention, followed by an immediate post-test. The same test was repeated two weeks later The control group received a pre-test and post-test two weeks later but no intervention.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Intervention improved scores in the immediate post-test but these improvements were not sustained two weeks later The only positive relationship found for the entire group between pre-and two week post-test scores was for oral health knowledge. There were no significant findings when adjusted for race, intervention type or group.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Changing oral health and nutrition knowledge, attitude and behavior may require intense and repetitive interventions to have a significant effect in this age cohort.
authors.affiliation: Department of Maternal and Child Health, University of North Carolina School of Public Health, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7450, USA.
authors.forename: Jonelle S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Grant
authors.forename: Jonathan B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Kotch
authors.forename: Rocio B
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Quinonez
authors.forename: Jill
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kerr
authors.forename: Michael W
authors.initials: MW
authors.lastname: Roberts
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American; D001294:Attitude to Health; D002652:Child Behavior; D002664:Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D002675:Child, Preschool; D015331:Cohort Studies; D003742:Dental Devices, Home Care; D018479:Early Intervention, Educational; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005502:Food; D015438:Health Behavior; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006304:Health Status; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D006801:Humans; D009657:North Carolina; D009909:Oral Health; D057566:Self Report; D013664:Teaching Materials; D014099:Toothbrushing; D044465:White People