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
