Evaluation of oral health practice of Tabriz primary school health worker

Oral health in school is an important part of general health program. School years are an important period that oral health habits (behaviors) for whole life and personal attitude develop in this period. School can be a good environment for promotion of oral health. This study evaluates the oral health practice of health workers in Tabriz primary schools. This cross-sectional and descriptive study evaluated all Tabriz school that had health workers. A questionnaire was sent to the schools that had health workers. After gathering, levels of the practice of the health workers that had answered this questionnaire were evaluated. SPSS software and independent t-test and paired- sample t-test were used for analyzing the results. Fifty eight out of 64 (90.65%) school health workers (SHW) were female and 52 of them (81.3%) had bachelor's and the others had master's degree. Mean of acquired practice score was 7.14 out of 10. Almost 84% of health workers informed the parents for their kid's oral and dental status or problems. Practice of school health workers had a significant relation to their experiences and experiences as health worker. SHWs who were employed in past decades all were female; therefore they had higher mean age. SHWs with two years education had longer experiences and better practice in school although this difference was not significant.