A dental hygienist employed by a children’s hospital dental…
A dental hygienist employed by a children’s hospital dental clinic is responsible for coordinating programs to serve medically compromised children in the service area. The population consists of a mix of diverse SES and ethnic groups. The dental hygienist’s responsibilities include managing the clinic that provides dental and dental hygiene treatment for the children, training hospital staff in the daily oral care of hospitalized children, serving as a resource to the hospital staff, conducting oral hygiene educational programs for clinic patients and their parents, and supervising the distribution of self-care fluoride products. The effectiveness of the educational programs is evaluated by comparing pre-test and post-test scores of knowledge and oral health behavior of the clinic patients. Answer questions #28-31 What type of evaluation involves a comparison of the pretest and posttest scores?