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

NCT05112224 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 112

Last updated 2021-11-08

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Summary

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.

Conditions

  • Oral Health

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

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.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Baqiyatallah Medical Sciences University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Mohsen Saffari, PhD. · Baqiyatallah Medical Sciences University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-05-01
Primary Completion
2017-09-30
Completion
2017-09-30

Countries

  • Iran

Study Locations

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