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A Model-based Health Education Program to Improve Oral Health in School Going Children

NCT ID: NCT05112224

Last Updated: 2021-11-08

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

112 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2017-05-01

Study Completion Date

2017-09-30

Brief Summary

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This was a randomized controlled trial to assess how an education program based on health belief model (HBM) may affect oral health status in the elementary school going children. For this, a convenient sample including 112 school going children aged between 6-12 years old were recruited and randomized into intervention or control groups. Education program consisted five weekly session each lasted for 1 hour approximately. Based on the main constructs of the HBM, each session was organized and a combination of educational methods were used in the intervention group while the control group only received the routine program provided by the dental clinic. Measures such as papillary bleeding index; decayed, missing, filled teeth (DMFT) and a scale based on the HBM were used for data collection. Three months after the intervention the measures were administered again and comparisons between baseline and follow-up were done.

Detailed Description

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Oral health problems especially dental carries are common in school children and education programs may help to prevent these conditions. The aim of current study was to investigate how an education program based on health belief model (HBM) may improve oral health status of the elementary school children.

One hundred twelve 6-12 year children along with one of their parents assigned into trial and control groups using a randomized controlled trial. For trial group 5 education sessions based on HBM were held, whereas control group only received routine education program delivered by the dental clinic. Decayed, missing, filled teeth (DMFT) score, papillary bleeding index, and HBM questionnaire for oral were used for evaluation of the program. Three month after the intervention reassessment was performed and the changes were measured by student t test as well as analysis of covariance test.

Conditions

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Oral Health

Keywords

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Oral health Gingival health Health education Decayed teeth

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

One group received the intervention and another received the routine program.
Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

DOUBLE

Caregivers Outcome Assessors
The dentist and data analyzer were blinded.

Study Groups

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Educational Intervention

An educational program based on HBM that was conducted using five one-hour sessions.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Education program based on health belief model to improve oral health

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Five weekly sessions each one lasted for one hour to encourage participants to follow healthy behaviors on oral health.

Control

Control group only received the education program provided by the dental clinic.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Education program based on health belief model to improve oral health

Five weekly sessions each one lasted for one hour to encourage participants to follow healthy behaviors on oral health.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Age between 6-12 years old (elementary school going children)
* Attendance of at least one parent (either father or mother) when admission and to take part in the intervention
* Being permanent residents of the enrollment area
* Having medical record in the dental clinic
* Ability to speak and understand Persian

Exclusion Criteria

* Children with advanced oral diseases or other critical conditions or disabilities
* Those who were using anti-inflammatory agents as a routine
* Those who had used antibiotics in past two weeks
* Children with illiterate parents
* Those on ongoing orthodontic treatments
Minimum Eligible Age

6 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

12 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Baqiyatallah Medical Sciences University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Mohsen Saffari

Professor

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Mohsen Saffari, PhD.

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

Baqiyatallah Medical Sciences University

Locations

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Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences

Tehran, , Iran

Site Status

Countries

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Iran

Other Identifiers

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BMSU.1395.63789

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id