• DR. SHAONI PRAMANIK
• DR. JAYEETA MAJUMDER
• DR. SOURAV GANGOPADHYAY

This study has conducted to find out the level of knowledge, attitude and practice of oral health among 181 people of East Midnapore region of west Bengal. A structure questionnaire has designed containing 32 numbers of close ended questions. A convenient sampling method is following. Three hypotheses are formulated – first one was on to find out whether or not gender is influencing the KAP level on oral health, second one was one to find out whether or not level of education is influencing the KAP level on oral health and last one was on to find out whether or not area of living is influencing the KAP level on oral health. One way ANOVA, Welch, Brown-Forsythe and independent sample t test were conducted with the help of SPSS software 21 version. The result shows gender and level of education are influencing the level of KAP of oral health as the P value in those cases are - less than .001 and .021respectively but the area of living is showing insignificant influence as the P value in that case is .269.

Oral Health, KAP, East Midnapore, gender, area of living, level of education

"A CROSS SECTIONAL STUDY ON INFLUENCE OF GENDER, EDUCATION AND AREA OF LIVING ON LEVEL OF KAP (KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE AND PRACTICE) OF ORAL HEALTH ON EAST MIDNAPORE REGION", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 12, page no.c325-c332, December-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2112241.pdf

"A CROSS SECTIONAL STUDY ON INFLUENCE OF GENDER, EDUCATION AND AREA OF LIVING ON LEVEL OF KAP (KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE AND PRACTICE) OF ORAL HEALTH ON EAST MIDNAPORE REGION", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 12, page no. ppc325-c332, December-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2112241.pdf