This document discusses a study examining oral health literacy and its implications for children in Hong Kong. The study had three objectives: 1) develop a new conceptual framework for oral health literacy, 2) create new tools to assess oral health literacy in Hong Kong, and 3) describe the relationship between oral health literacy and oral health status/management of preschool children. Researchers developed Chinese versions of assessment tools and collected data from 300 parent-child pairs. The study was funded by the University Grants Council of Hong Kong and involved investigators from dentistry, psychology, and other disciplines working collaboratively.

1. ORAL HEALTH LITERACY:
IMPLICATIONS FOR HONG
KONG’S CHILDREN
• Objectives:
1. To develop a new conceptual framework for oral health literacy;
2. To develop new, locally-relevant instruments to assess oral health
literacy in Hong Kong;
3. To describe the relationship between oral health literacy and the
oral health status and management of pre-school children in Hong
Kong.
• Development of locally-relevant tools
– Chinese REALD-99/ REALD-30
– Hong Kong Oral Health Literacy Assessment Task (HKOHLAT)
• Data collection: 300 dyads
Working across disciplines

2. THE TEAM: THE INVESTIGATORS
• GRF 2010-12 “Oral health literacy – Implications for Hong Kong’s children”
• HKU KE Award 2011 “Making an impact – Oral health literacy for community
dentistry”
Dr Susan Bridges (CDC),Prof Colman McGrath (Dental Public Health), Dr Cynthia KY Yiu, Dr
Gloria HM Wong, (Paediatric Dentistry), Prof Terry K F Au, Chair Professor, Psychology)
Funding : University Grants Council of Hong Kong, General Research Fund (2010-12) (Ref:
760009); SRT “Sciences of Learning” Top-up (2011); HKU KE Award (2011)
Ethical approval: IRB HKU/ HA Hong Kong West Cluster (UW09-184)

3. The Team: Research Support
Dentistry:
RA : Jenny Lee Tsui Man,
Rita Suen Po Chuen
JHDOs: Caroline Chee
Cecilia Chan Wing Sze
PhDs: Brenda Cheng Siu Shan
Tina Peng Si Min
Student RAs:
BDS V: Patricia Melody Yeung
BDS IV: Adrian Yu Yin Tat
Carmen Chan Ka Man
Andy Chan Hon Kwan
Tony Lui To
Vincent Cheung Ka Hei
Bill Tsang Man Lung
Psychology:
RA: Chris Kwan Yee Ping
+ Summer Interns (2010; 2011)
+ Student Interns

4. OHL@HKU: OUR
BRIEF HISTORY
2009 (Pilot):
9th World Congress on Preventive
Dentistry (WCPD), Phuket
2010 (GRF)
July: 88th General Session & Exhibition of
the IADR, Barcelona, Spain (oral
presentation)
December: Conjoint Scientific Session,
HKU-Sun Yat-Sen University (SYSU),
December 2010 at Guangzhou
Colgate Best Poster Presentation
Prize (Senior Category)

5. Alice M. Horowitz School of Public Health,
University of Maryland, USA
2011 (GRF) Jessica Y Lee Department of Pediatric
Dentistry UNC School of Dentistry, USA
Susan Bridges Faculty of Dentistry,
The University of Hong Kong
IADR/AADR General (Organiser & Chair)
Session, San Diego.
Julia Richman Department of Pediatric
Dentistry, University of Washington., USA
SYMPOSIUM: Paola Calvasina University of Toronto,
“Oral Health Literacy: CANADA
From conceptual
research to practice” Lisa Jamieson Australian Research Centre
for Population Oral Health, The University of
Adelaide, AUSTRALIA

6. HEALTH EDUCATION:
THINK BIOLOGY
Conceptual & Behavioral Change

7. COLD/FLU
PREVENTION
• Think Biology
• Cold/Flu viruses’ life and
death
• How to kill them?
• When to be careful?

9. BEHAVIORAL
CHANGE

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