Barriers and Facilitators to Children Wearing a Sports Mouthguard: A Systematic Review

A systematic review on the identification of the barriers and facilitators of wearing a sports mouthguard among children. For this, A systematic search was done from different databases following PRISMA guidelines. The six different databases including (Ovid MEDLINE, Epub Ahead of Print, In-Process & Other Non-Indexed Citations and Daily, Embase, Embase Classic, Web of Science, and Scopus) were searched, including the search terms related to the topic. 1470 records were identified, 36 studies were included in this systematic review. The data was collected using a modified data extraction form. The barriers and facilitators found were put into five sociological levels of influence based on the Theoretical Domains Framework domains (individual, interpersonal, organisational, community, and public policy). The Newcastle-Ottawa Scale was used to measure the risk of bias in the included studies. The discovered barriers and facilitators were classified into seven TDF domains, including knowledge, beliefs about consequences, intentions, memory, attention and decision process, environmental context and resources, social influence, and emotions.