Feasibility of training community health workers to conduct periodontal examinations: a validation study in rural Nepal.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In many low- and middle-income countries, insufficient human resources limit access to oral health services. Shifting clinical tasks to less specialized health professionals, such as community health workers, has been used as a strategy to expand the health workforce, especially in remote or underserved locations. The objective of this study was to evaluate the validity of periodontal examinations conducted by auxiliary nurse midwives in a rural home setting in Nepal.

Methods

Twenty-one pregnant women < 26 weeks gestation from Sarlahi District, Nepal, underwent full mouth periodontal examinations measuring probing depth (PD) and bleeding on probing (BOP) on 6 sites per tooth by one of five auxiliary nurse midwives, who were trained for this study but had no previo

SUBMITTER: Erchick DJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7212579 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature