Oral Health Promotion: Youth as Agents Of Change

NCT ID: NCT03947203

Last Updated: 2020-10-14

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: WITHDRAWN
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2020-10-31
• Study Completion Date: 2021-10-31

Brief Summary

This upstream communication study may aid in our understanding of the nature of the parent-adolescent relationship and how we can use this relationship to promote better oral health of the parents and adolescents.

Detailed Description

Given the proliferation of social media as a tool for health communication, this proposed pilot study will be conducted with adolescents and their parents in the greater Richmond area, including Petersburg, and examines whether disseminating oral health information to adolescents via Facebook will have a greater impact on their sharing of the message to their parents than providing them the information in written format- using a pamphlet. We hypothesize that parents in the Facebook arm of the intervention will be more likely to report receiving the oral health message from their child than those in the pamphlet arm. Further, this study investigates whether parents whose adolescents re provided the information via Facebook will have greater increase in intent to schedule dental appointments and dental appointment scheduling behaviors than parents whose children are in the pamphlet group. We hypothesize that parents in the Facebook group will report greater increase in dental appointment scheduling than those whose adolescents are in the pamphlet group. Lastly, we would like to explore whether parents and adolescents in the Facebook arm will have greater increase in oral health knowledge and greater decreases in perceived barriers to oral health activities, both which may be related to increases in parents' dental appointment scheduling.

Conditions

Oral Hygiene

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Pamphlet

Provided with only a pamphlet containing educational material about oral health

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Social media

Provided pamphlet containing educational material about oral health and will have access to a private Facebook group, where we will share informational messages and content relating to oral health

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Social media

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Provided pamphlet and a private Facebook group where informational messages and content relating to oral health will be shared

Interventions

Social media

Provided pamphlet and a private Facebook group where informational messages and content relating to oral health will be shared

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• enrolled in grades 7 through 12
• between the ages of 12 and 18
• currently living in the same household as their legal guardian(s) who agree to participate in this study
• live in the greater Richmond and Petersburg area
• uses a smartphone
• has not had a dental appointment in the past 6 months

Exclusion Criteria

• not between the ages of 12 and 18
• do not live with their legal guardian (s)
• are not residents of the greater Richmond and Petersburg area
• have had a dental appointment in the past six months
• legal guardian does not agree to participate

• Minimum Eligible Age: 12 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

DentaQuest Institute, Inc.

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Virginia Commonwealth University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Maghboobah Mosavel, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Virginia Commonwealth University

Other Identifiers

HM20014618

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id