Problems in organizing dental health programs in elementary schools under the jurisdiction of the Bangkok Metropolitan administration as perceived by school health teachers
Abstract:
The purposes of this research were to study and to compare the problems in organizing dental health programs in elementary schools under the Jurisdiction of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration as perceived by school health teachers upon the schools size. The researcher studies all the population, 427 school health teachers selected one from each school. There were 97 teachers from large elementary schools, 123 from medium, and 207 from small. The constructed questionnaires were mailed to all school health teachers. Four hundred and six, accounted for 95.08 percent of questionnaires were returned. The obtained data were than analyzed in terms of percentage, means, and standard deviation. One-Way analysis of variance and the Scheffes multiple comparison method were employed to determine the statistically significant difference at the .05 level. The findings of this study indicated that : 1. Problems in organizing dental health programs in elementary schools under the Jurisdiction of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration were found to be at low level in all 11 problems. 2. The comparison of the problems in organizing dental health programs between large, medium, and small elementary schools were found to be statistically significant difference at the .05 level. Toothbrushing in large schools was found to be more problems than in small schools. Fluoridation in large schools was found to be more problems than in medium schools. And also referring the patient to dental clinic in small schools was found to be more problems than in medium schools.