Background Untreated dental caries negatively impacts children and their families; the implication of which is best measured through assessing quality of life. Information related to Oral Health‐Related Quality of Life (OHRQoL) in Peruvian pre‐school children is scarce. Aim To investigate the relationship between dental caries and the OHRQoL of 3‐year‐old children. Design Randomly selected government pre‐schools (n = 17), situated in three low socio‐economic status districts in Lima, participated. The OHRQoL data were obtained using the Peruvian (P) ECOHIS questionnaire. Clinical examinations using the Caries Assessment Spectrum and Treatment (CAST) instrument were performed on 308 children. From which, 213 parents returned the P‐ECOHIS form. ANOVA, Tamhane, and Tukey methods were used to analyse the data. Results The mean age of the children was 3.04 years. The two highest...

Background To identify barriers to participation in a primary oral health care programme aimed at preventing early childhood caries, as perceived by nurses. Methods Of a total of 140 randomly selected nurses employed in 40 government health centres in Lima, 123 completed a pre-tested questionnaire. Background variables were districts’ ‘socio-economic status’ (SES) and ‘years of experience’. Factor analysis was performed. ANOVA was applied for testing the influence of the background variables on the barrier factors. Chi-square test was applied to test for differences between single item barriers and the background variables. The Likert-scale (1–4) was used. Results There was no statistical significant effect of ‘SES’ or of ‘years of experience’ of nurses on any of the 7 barrier factors, nor on the 11 single item barrier factors. The highest mean score (3.81) was obtain...