Studying the relationship between parents health information literacy and students’ oral health

Abstract

Mozhdeh Salajegheh Gholamreza Khaloei Batol Zangiabadi 1. Academic staff and associate professor of knowledge and information science Dept. of Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran 2. General dentist of Restrict 2 Education of Kerman City 3. M.A. in information management and librarian of central library of Azad University of Kerman Corresponding Author: Msalajgh@gmail.com Background: The purpose of this study is investigating the relationship between parents' health information literacy and the oral health status of elementary school students in Education District 2 Kerman in 1394-95. Materials and methods: The research method is descriptive correlational. Using Morgan's table, a sample size of 370 people was estimated, of which 332 responded to the questionnaire in full. Cluster sampling method is used. The results were evaluated using Pearson correlation coefficient and regression analysis using SPSS 21 software. Results: The results showed that there is a positive relationship between parents' health information literacy and oral health status among elementary students. In the multi-variable relationship, decision making and behavior, assessment, understanding and comprehension, access, and reading, respectively, had the most relationship with the oral health variable. Conclusion: Therefore, it can be concluded that increasing parental health literacy leads to proper parenting behavior and improves behaviors to improve oral and dental health.