The aims were to find out 1) if schools’ oral health practices were associated with pupils’ oral health behaviour and whether 2) the national sweet-selling recommendation and 3) distributing oral health material (OHEM) affected schools as oral health promoters.Three independently collected datasets from Finnish upper comprehensive schools (N=988) were used: longitudinal oral health practices data (n=258) with three-year follow up (2007 n=480, 2008 n=508, 2009 n=593) from principals’ online questionnaires, oral health behaviour data from pupils participating in the national School Health Promotion Study (n=970 schools) and oral health education data from health education teachers’ online questionnaires (2008 n=563, 2009 n=477 teachers). Oral health practices data and oral health behaviour data were combined (n=414) to answer aim 1. For aims 2 and 3, oral health practices data and oral health education data were used independently.School sweet selling and an open campus policy were associated with pupils’ use of sweet products and tobacco products during school time. The National Recommendation was quite an effective way to reduce the number of sweet-selling schools, but there were large regional differences and a lack of a clear oral health policy in the schools. OHEM did not increase the proportion of teachers teaching oral health, but teachers started to cover oral health topics more frequently. Women started to use OHEM more often than men did.Schools’ oral health policy should include prohibiting the selling of sweet products in school by legislative actions, enabling healthy alternatives instead, and setting a closed campus policy to protect pupils from school-time sweet consuming and smoking.
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机译:目的是找出1)学校的口腔健康习惯是否与学生的口腔健康行为有关,以及2)国家推荐的甜食推荐和3)分发受影响的口腔健康材料(OHEM)作为学校口腔健康促进者.3使用来自芬兰高级综合学校(N = 988)的独立收集的数据集:校长进行了三年随访(2007 n = 480,2008 n = 508,2009 n = 593)的纵向口腔健康实践数据(n = 258)在线问卷,参加全国学校健康促进研究的学生(n = 970所学校)的口腔健康行为数据以及健康教育教师在线问卷的口腔健康教育数据(2008年n = 563,2009年n = 477教师)。结合口腔健康实践数据和口腔健康行为数据(n = 414)来回答目标1。对于目标2和目标3,口腔健康实践数据和口腔健康教育数据是独立使用的。学生在上学期间使用甜品和烟草制品。 《国家建议书》是减少甜味学校数量的一种非常有效的方法,但是地区差异很大,并且学校缺乏明确的口腔保健政策。 OHEM并没有增加教师教授口腔健康的比例,但是教师开始更加频繁地涵盖口腔健康主题。女性开始使用OHEM的比例高于男性,学校的口腔健康政策应包括通过立法措施禁止在学校销售甜品,改为使用健康替代品,并制定封闭的校园政策以保护学生免于上学期间食用甜食和吸烟。
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