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Mobile Phone Messaging To Improve Oral Hygiene Among Primary School Children in Pakistan

NCT03390452 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 362

Last updated 2021-02-11

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Oral health is an important component of general health and oral cavity acts as a mirror to the health of individuals and communities. Inadequate focus on primary prevention of oral diseases, poses a sizeable challenge for numerous countries, especially low and middle income countries.

Mobile phone technology is relatively new and its successes in chronic disease is well documented but there is little evidence available in its use for improving oral health and dietary habits of children.

This will be a Pilot Randomized Control Trial (RCT) . It will be conducted in public and private sector schools of Quetta city, Pakistan. Study will comprise of intervention and a control arm. Duration of intervention is 6 months.

In the intervention group, study participants will be the parents. School teachers will send oral health education and reminder messages on frequent intervals to educate children's parents on oral hygiene and reinforce their behaviors to improve their child oral health.

The primary school children in the control group will not receive any intervention

Conditions

  • Oral Hygiene
  • Dental Plaque Induced Gingivitis

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Mobile Phone Messaging

Parents of primary school children will receive "Mobile Phone Messages" regarding their children's oral hygiene maintenance and their positive dietary habits.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Health Services Academy, Islamabad, Pakistan

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ashfaq A Khawajakhail, MPH · Health services Academy, Islamabad

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
QUADRUPLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
5 Years
Max Age
12 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-09-01
Primary Completion
2019-04-30
Completion
2019-10-30

Countries

  • Pakistan

Study Locations

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