Oral health experiences and perceptions of children with disabilities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The clinical focus on oral health means there is a scarcity of evidence from the perspectives of children with disabilities because of the continuing exclusion of their views from oral health research. This study takes a rights-based approach, aiming to give disabled children a voice by exploring their oral health perspectives and experiences. In order to do this, innovative and inclusive methods are needed.

Aim

The aim was to include the voices of children with disabilities by representing their perspectives and experiences of oral health.

Design

An ethnographic study employed a purposive sample of 10 children between the ages of 9 and 15 years with a range of intellectual disabilities and physical impairments attending special centres in Riyadh, Saudi Ara

SUBMITTER: Alwadi MAM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9790449 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature