Effect of Oral Health Education on Oral Health Status, Treatment Needs and Barriers to Care

NCT04317768 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: JUST 293-2018
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 232
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Jordanian children have very poor oral hygiene parameters, and this is reflected as very high caries prevalence and poor gingival health conditions. This study will focus on children at social homes in the community in order to establish a baseline reference about their oral health status, treatment needs, and barriers to dental care. Also, to report the efficacy of oral health education using audio-visual aids and frequent motivation on oral health status, treatment needs and barriers to care among children at social homes in Jordan.

Conditions

Dental Caries; Gingivitis

Keywords

Oral health status; Dental treatment needs; Barriers to dental care; Children at social homes

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (3)

• Measure of dental caries

  Decayed, missing, filled teeth

  1 year

• Gingival health

  Presence or absence of gingival inflammation

  1 year

• Oral hygiene

  Presence or absence of dental plaque

  1 year

Study Arms (2)

Study group

EXPERIMENTAL

They will be educated and motivated by an intensive program consisting of verbal instructions, Power Point lectures, posters and live demonstrations about oral hygiene instructions and teaching the proper way to brush the teeth. These will be reinforced by the investigator at intervals of 1 week, 1 month, 3 months, 6 months and 1 year.

Behavioral: Basic oral health education and motivation; Behavioral: Intensive oral health education and motivation

Control group

OTHER

They will receive verbal oral hygiene instructions using a model to demonstrate only once at the beginning of the study, no further motivation or educational seminars will be done.

Behavioral: Basic oral health education and motivation

Interventions

Basic oral health education and motivation BEHAVIORAL

Subjects will receive verbal oral hygiene instructions using a model to demonstrate only once at the beginning of the study, no further motivation or educational seminars will be done.

Control group; Study group

Intensive oral health education and motivation BEHAVIORAL

Subjects will be educated and motivated by an intensive program consisting of verbal instructions, PowerPoint lectures, posters and live demonstrations about oral hygiene instructions and teaching the proper way to brush the teeth. These will be reinforced by the investigator at intervals of 1 week, 1 month, 3 months, 6 months and 1 year.

Study group

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 4 Years - 16 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17)

You may qualify if:

• Healthy children living in social homes among age group specified

You may not qualify if:

• Children with poor behavior

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Jordan University of Science and Technology: lead

Study Sites (1)

Jordan University of Science and Technology

Irbid, 22110, Jordan

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Dental Caries; Gingivitis

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Tooth Demineralization; Tooth Diseases; Stomatognathic Diseases; Infections; Gingival Diseases; Periodontal Diseases; Mouth Diseases

Study Officials

• Ola Al-Batayneh

  Jordan University of Science and Technology

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Masking Details: The statistician is blinded to groups.
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Model Details: This is a cross-sectional study on a randomly selected group of children from randomly selected social homes in Jordan. Children and/or the care giver (n=500) will answer a questionnaire in an interview about his/her demographics, oral health related habits, the child general health status, the child oral health related quality of life, barriers to getting dental care, treatment needs for those children. A thorough clinical examination will be done to these children by a mouth mirror and explorer at a suitable room in the social home. The investigators will record the baseline oral health status parameters (Caries, gingival health and presence of plaque). For the interventions; A representative sample (25%) will be divided to two subgroups; group one (Study) and group two (Control) which will be matched for age and gender.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: March 19, 2020
• First Posted: March 23, 2020
• Study Start: February 1, 2019
• Primary Completion: May 15, 2020
• Study Completion: June 30, 2020
• Last Updated: March 30, 2021

Record last verified: 2021-03

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

JO (1)