"Safeguard Your Smile" an Oral Health Literacy Intervention Promoting Positive Oral Hygiene Self-care Behavior

NCT02521155 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 15-071-CERES-D
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 140
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The purpose of the investigators' study is to assess effectiveness of community based oral health literacy intervention promoting positive oral hygiene self-care behavior among Montreal's Punjabi immigrants.

Conditions

Gingivitis; Dental Plaque

Keywords

Oral health literacy intervention; oral hygiene behavior

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (4)

• Oral hygiene self-care knowledge using a self administered questionnaire

  Using a self administered questionnaire

  Three months

• Oral hygiene self-care behavior using a self administered questionnaire

  Using a self administered questionnaire

  Three months

• Gingival index

  Loe and Sillness gingival index scores to assess gingivitis, score 0=no gingival inflammation, 1=mild inflammation-slight change in colour of gingiva, 2=moderate inflammation-moderate glazing, redness, edema and hypertrophy, tendency to bleed, score 3=severe inflammation, marked redness and hypertrophy, tendency to spontaneous bleeding.

  Three months

• Dental plaque index

  Loe and Sillness plaque index on the six Ramfjord teeth (16, 12, 24, 36, 32, 44 on proximal, buccal and lingual sides). Score 0= no dental plaque seen in the gingival area; score 1= dental plaque present on the free gingival margin; score 2= moderate accumulation of dental plaque at the gingival margin seen by naked eye and score 3= abundant dental plaque in the gingival margin.

  Three months

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Oral health literacy measured using TS-REALD (Two Stage Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Dentistry)

  Three months

Study Arms (2)

Intervention group

EXPERIMENTAL

Safeguard Your Smile an oral health literacy intervention.

Behavioral: Safeguard Your Smile an oral health literacy intervention

Control group

NO INTERVENTION

No intervention, only a conventional pamphlet will be given.

Interventions

Safeguard Your Smile an oral health literacy intervention BEHAVIORAL

Safeguard Your Smile intervention will consist of following five components: i) Reviewing photonovel (educational booklet) with participants to help them understand adequate oral hygiene self-care behavior. ii) Demonstrating adequate tooth brushing, flossing and tongue cleaning (frequency, duration and technique) on dentoform iii) Helping participants to make a concrete plan (specifying when where and how will they perform oral hygiene self-care behavior and a coping plan). Also, to identify a prompt/cue that would act as a reminder. iv) Assigning a task to participants to daily check-mark their behavioral progress on a calendar provided in the photonovel for the next three months. v) Follow up by making three phone calls to each participant of the intervention group once a month.

Intervention group

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 60 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• Punjabi immigrants who are Montreal residents
• Be in good general health
• Will give written informed consent

You may not qualify if:

• Non permanent residents e.g. refugees
• Presence of orthodontic appliances
• Having any disease of soft/ hard oral tissues e.g. advanced periodontitis
• Having any systemic disease e.g. diabetes
• On certain medications such as phenytoin.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Université de Montréal: lead

Study Sites (1)

Faculty of Dental medicine

Montreal, Quebec, H3C3J7, Canada

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Gingivitis; Dental Plaque

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Infections; Gingival Diseases; Periodontal Diseases; Mouth Diseases; Stomatognathic Diseases; Dental Deposits; Tooth Diseases

Study Officials

• Louise Potvin, BA MSc. PhD

  Université de Montréal

  STUDY DIRECTOR

• Daniel P. Kandelman, DrCD DMD MPH

  Université de Montréal

  STUDY DIRECTOR

• Navdeep Kaur, BDS MSc.

  Université de Montréal

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Canada Research Chair (950-228295), Institut de recherche en Santé Publique and the Centre de Recherche Léa-Roback, School of Public Health

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: August 5, 2015
• First Posted: August 13, 2015
• Study Start: July 1, 2015
• Primary Completion: October 1, 2015
• Study Completion: February 1, 2016
• Last Updated: March 2, 2016

Record last verified: 2015-09

Locations

CA (1)