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Oral Evaluation by the Nurses From the Office of Access to Healthcare ("PASS") for Vulnerable People - PASSDENT Study

NCT03493750 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 183

Last updated 2022-07-20

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Summary

Oral health is defined as the state of being free from dental or periodontal diseases and discomfort of oral cavity. WHO considers that oral hygiene is a major public health problem whatever the countries (developed, developing, and underdeveloped).

The two main local medical problems are dental caries and periodontal diseases. Without appropriate treatments, both diseases can lead to local functional and esthetic damages, and can also have some negative repercussions on health.

Studies showed that there are great social disparities among people concerned by oral health issues. People in vulnerable situations (homeless and low incomes people, refugees) had less recourse to dental care. Those who consult do it less often and later. Reasons are mainly cost related, but also people in vulnerable situation don't perceive dental care as an important matter and don't know where and how to ask for help for having dental care.

PASS (french acronym for "Office of Access to Healthcare") departments, setting in both private and public health institutions, are intended to facilitate the access to care and the support of people in vulnerable situations, and their accompaniment in the steps necessary for the recognition of their rights.

Nurses of the Annecy PASS department had developed a questionnaire called "healthplan guide" that aim at helping them to screen and identify people with dental diseases among those in vulnerable situation, and to sensitize them about the importance of oral hygiene and how to improve it. This questionnaire is use in daily practice.

This study hypothesizes that more patients will be sensitized to benefit a dental examination in a dental practice if nurses use the "healthplan guide" questionnaire combined with an oral and dental evaluation.

Conditions

  • Homeless and Low Incomes People, Refugees

Interventions

OTHER

Oral and dental evaluation

Mouth inspection done by a nurse, in order to count missing, coloured, injured teeth, and evaluate dental plaque, halitosis, inflammatory gums, mucosal injuries, low masticatory surface.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Centre Hospitalier Annecy Genevois

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Louisa Chevaleyre, Nurse · CH Annecy Genevois

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-08-02
Primary Completion
2021-10-15
Completion
2021-10-15

Countries

  • France

Study Locations

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