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Objective To evaluate the intervention effect of dietary interventions in newly-admitted children in kindergartens and nurseries. Methods Newly-admitted children from 6 kindergartens and nurseries were randomly divided into intervention group and control group, and prospective controlled trials were conducted. The intervention group took a one-year comprehensive intervention measures, and the control group took conventional interventions, evaluation of the intervention effect. Results Before intervention, the parents of children had the highest content of protein in plant foods, which are the main nutrients in cereals, and the awareness rate was 62.08％ and 63.34％ respectively. About 74.05％ of the children need help when eating and 67.54％ of the children always skip breakfast. Generalized estimation equation analysis showed that after intervention, the awareness rate of various parents 'nutritional knowledge increased (P<0.05), and the increase rate of parents' awareness in the intervention group was greater than that of the control group (P<0.05) . After the intervention, the positive rate of various unhealthy eating habits among children decreased (P<0.05), and the positive rate of multiple unhealthy eating habits in the intervention group was greater than that of the control group (P<0.05) . Conclusion The family-school-children comprehensive intervention can effectively improve patient's awareness of nutritional knowledge and reduce the occurrence of unhealthy dietary behaviors of children in private nurseries.
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Objective To investigate the status of dental caries of deciduous teeth among preschool children from private kin-dergarten in Chongqing city.Methods According to the criteria recommended by The Third National Oral Health Investigation,the deciduous caries of 2 713 preschool children aged 3 to 6 years from 40 private kindergartens in Yuzhong district were examined.The prevalence of dental caries and the mean dmft were calculated.The results were analyzed using SPSS21.0 software package. Results The prevalence of dental caries was 61.04%.The mean dmft score was 3.12,the filling rate was 0.4%.The caries preva-lence of 3-,4-,5-,6-year-old children were found to be 42.51%,59.53%,67.76% and 74.85%,and the mean dmft score were 2. 71,3.68,3.96 and 4.09.The prevalence of dental caries and mean dmft increased gradually as the children was statistically signifi-cant(P 0.05).Conclusion Deciduous dental caries of preschool children from private kindergartens was an important problem in Chongqing city,and the filling rate was very low.