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Quality and Effectiveness of a Personalised App to Support Patients With Fixed Braces

NCT04184739 · Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 138

Last updated 2019-12-04

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Mobile phones are potentially an invaluable tool in improving adherence, they are readily available and can utilised to deliver several approaches to improve adherence simultaneously. A personalised App to help support orthodontic patients ('My Braces') was therefore developed by the researchers. The App provides generic treatment information and also has a personalised element. The personalised element allows patients to input their own treatment information (including progress photographs), set goals, develop plans for achieving these and it provides the patient and clinicians with appropriate dashboards to monitor progress.

This research will be conducted at the Eastman Dental Hospital, UCLH Foundation Trust, London. The aim is to assess the effectiveness of the My Braces App, an App designed to support patients undergoing fixed orthodontic treatment.

Effectiveness of the My Braces App will be tested by way of a randomised controlled trial. Participants will be allocated to one of three groups:

Group A: Standard treatment information (verbal and written) and access to a basic version of the My Braces App with a toothbrushing timer. The timer is necessary as the health behaviour outcome is toothbrushing duration.

Group B: As for group A, however, additionally the My Braces App will provide generic treatment information (a combination of videos and text)

Group C: As for group B, however, the patients will have access to the full functionality of the My Braces App and the App will allow patients to input their own personalised treatment information (including progress photographs), set goals, develop plans for achieving these and provide the patient and clinicians with appropriate dashboards to monitor progress.

Conditions

  • Treatment Adherence and Compliance

Interventions

OTHER

My Braces App

An App designed to support patients undertaking orthodontic treatment.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University College, London

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Susan J Cunningham, PhD · UCL Professor

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
10 Years
Max Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-10-31
Primary Completion
2025-10-31
Completion
2025-10-31

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