Oral Health Education for Caregivers of Children With Disabilities

NCT03157596 | Completed DMC

• 1 other identifier: 3600 - SMSB
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 61
• Locations: 0 countries
• Sites: N/A

Brief Summary

Considering the impact of caregivers' oral health knowledge, attitudes and practices on the oral health of their children; we introduced an educational program to the parents and caregivers of children with developmental disabilities about the oral healthcare of their developmentally disabled children to rise up with the oral health status of those children.

Conditions

Developmental Disability

Keywords

disability; developmental disability; special healthcare needs

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• improvement in oral hygiene status of children with developmental disabilities

  simplified oral hygiene index recorded from the oral examination of children with disabilities are analyzed in cluster level for both intervention and control groups, and compared before and 3 months after the educational intervention.

  3 months

Secondary Outcomes (3)

• improvement in caregivers' knowledge about oral healthcare of their developmentally disabled children

  3 months

• improvement in caregivers' attitude towards the oral healthcare of their developmentally disabled children

  3 months

• decrease in the unmet treatment needs of children with developmental disabilities

  3 months

Study Arms (2)

intervention group

EXPERIMENTAL

selected randomly from a list of all the 105 special education centers registered at the State Ministry of Education, and randomly allocated into intervention group. all the children with developmental disabilities in enrolled in the school who met the eligibility criteria were examined and all their parents were interviewed. Caregivers' baseline knowledge and attitudes towards the oral healthcare of their children was assessed by an interview questionnaire. examination for the children with developmental disabilities was carried out to assess caregivers' practice by assessing the oral hygiene level and amount of unmet treatment needs. educational intervention by an Oral Health Education Program for Caregivers of Children with developmental disabilities about the oral health care of Children with DD, in the form of a short video, accompanied by demonstration \& followed by an interactive discussion . the same evaluation was carried out again 3 months after the intervention.

Other: Oral Health Educational Program for Caregivers of Children with developmental disabilities

control group

NO INTERVENTION

Evaluation of the knowledge, attitude and practice of caregivers of children with developmental disabilities towards the oral health of their children at baseline and 3 months after without any intervention.

Interventions

Oral Health Educational Program for Caregivers of Children with developmental disabilities OTHER

Oral Health Education Program for Caregivers of Children with developmental disabilities included information about health issues and obstacles encountered in children with DD \& methods of prevention and management. It also emphasized on proper oral hygiene measures for this group. (University of Washington 2010)

intervention group

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 3 Years - 18 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• has a developmental disability.
• enrolled in any of the randomly selected special education schools.
• caregivers signed the informed consent.

You may not qualify if:

• not a student in any of the randomly selected special education schools.
• caregivers refused to participate and sign the informed consent.
• age not in the range of 3 - 18 years old.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• ElTyeb, Sara Amir Hassan, M.D.: lead
• Sudan Medical Specialization Board (SMSB): collaborator
• Elfatih Malik, MD: collaborator

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Developmental Disabilities

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Neurodevelopmental Disorders; Mental Disorders

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: INDIV
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Dr. Sara Amir

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: May 13, 2017
• First Posted: May 17, 2017
• Study Start: July 1, 2016
• Primary Completion: December 30, 2016
• Study Completion: January 17, 2017
• Last Updated: May 17, 2017

Record last verified: 2017-05