Recommendations
Nowadays, ever more wives have to join the
workforce, not just for economical reasons but also
for women’s self-achievement. This makes these
working mothers less able to devote time to their
children and domestic responsibilities. To fill this gap
in child-rearing, the role of the preschools and daycare
centers is becoming ever more important. Therefore,
the quality of these institutions should be raised so
that they can meet the objective of achieving better
dental health for young children.
The role of the key people surrounding the
mothers, such as family members, health center
personnel, and school teachers, is becoming ever more
important, not only as sources of health information,
but also as part of the mothers’ social support.
Therefore, they need to be encouraged to meet the
objective of achieving better dental health for young
children. Meanwhile, the importance of sources of
information on mothers’ preventive behavior need to
be reassessed, and strategies need to be developed
to improve levels of media health literacy within
the community, and for mothers in particular, so
that health information can be appropriately filtered,
absorbed and applied.
Furthermore, in-depth study might be necessary
to construct the knowledge items to obtain a reliable
tool to measure the mothers’ level of knowledge. The
finding about the low level of regular check ups also
merits further research.