The effectiveness of a 6-year oral health education programme for primary schoolchildren

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 173-182

  Vanobbergen, Jacques ^a   Declerck, Dominique ^b   Mwalili, Samuel ^b   Martens, Luc ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Effectiveness; Evaluation; Oral health education; Primary schoolchildren

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BELGIUM; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL HEALTH EDUCATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHOOL DENTISTRY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TOOTH PLAQUE;

BELGIUM; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL PLAQUE INDEX; DMF INDEX; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION, DENTAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PREVALENCE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCHOOL DENTISTRY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 2942703998     PISSN: 03015661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0528.2004.00151.x     Document Type: Article

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