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Volume 5 Issue 2 (February, 2017)

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AWARENESS AND ATTITUDE OF PARENTS FOR SPORTS INJURIES FOR THE AGE GROUP OF 5-13 YEARS
Rahul Mishra, Atul Kumar Singh, Preeti Singh, Satyendra Singh Gautam

Objectives: The objective was to enable the clinician to formulate a set of instructions which can be given to parents, so as to make them aware and increase their knowledge, which will help them to promptly and properly manage an emergency case of dental trauma. Material and  Method: A total of 50 parents of children aged 5-13 years of age who came to the OPD of the institution to  receive care  were included in the study for survey  over the time period of 4 months with the help of self administered questionnaire Result: The demographic characteristics of the participating parents; indicate that 45% of parents were from rural area and 42% of parents belonged to >30 years age group. Also, 42% of parents were educated below graduate level and 36.7% of parents had previous experience of trauma to self or others. Conclusion: lack of proper knowledge on emergency management of dental trauma among the participants of this survey, there was willingness among parents to gain knowledge regarding emergency management of dental trauma.
Key Words-  Dental trauma, Knowledge, Emergency

Corresponding author: Dr. Rahul Mishra, Assistant Professor, Pedodontics & Preventive Dentistry, Dept Of Dentistry, UP University Of Medical Sciences, Saifai, Etawah- 206130.

This article may be cited as: Mishra R, Singh AK, Singh P, Gautam SS. Awareness and attitude of parents for sports injuries for the age group of 5-13 years. J Adv Med Dent Scie Res 2017;5(2):5-9.

 
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