فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

BACKGROUND: Schools are ideal setting for children’s oral health‑promoting programs. It is anintegrated model for oral health‑promoting schools (OHPS) with the capacities of dental school’scurriculum and dental students as workforces. In this protocol, the principle of planning andimplementation of the oral health program is described.MATERIALS AND METHODS: Based on the PRECEDE‑Policy, Regulatory, and OrganizationalConstructs in Educational and Environmental Development (PROCEED) planning model, a frameworkfor determining the potential predisposing, reinforcing, and enabling factors that could be interveningwas diagnosed. To adapt the phases of the planning model for integration of the “OHPS” principlesand the dental students’ curriculum, the following steps are supposed to be considered: Phases1–5 which are to assess the baseline data will include the assessment of children oral health statusand parents and teachers’ knowledge, attitude, and performance. Phase 6 or implementation phasewill be allocated to oral health education interventions for students, parents, and teachers, professionalscreening, prevention, and referral. Phase 7 or the process assessment phase will be to record thenumber of screened students, the amount of fissure sealant and fluoride provision, and percentageof trained parents and teachers. Phase 8 or the impact assessment phase will assess the students’improvement in knowledge and practice, decayed, missing, and filled teeth scores, teachers andmothers’ oral health attitudes and behaviors, and brushing and flossing behaviors. At the last, costanalysis of the program and long‑term monitoring of the interventions is suggested.CONCLUSION: In case that the effectiveness of this model is proven, it can be implemented by otherdental schools for the primary schools in their regions. Considering the number and distribution ofdental schools in the country, this model is executable as targeted population oral health promotionapproach in 6–12‑year‑old schoolchildren.