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Acceptance and Efficacy of a Digital Application Among Parents to Control Early Childhood Caries

NCT05515510 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 66

Last updated 2022-08-25

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Summary

Few educational oral health applications, directed to the preschool children under the age of six years are available world-wide. The overall aim of this study is to evaluate the acceptance and efficacy of a digital application in improving evidence based oral hygiene knowledge among parents of young children to control Early Childhood Caries (ECC).

This study is split into two parts, the first one is aimed to understand the acceptance, usability and parental perception about a digital application being used to promote the evidence based oral hygiene knowledge among parents of young children to control ECC.

In a second phase (randomised clinical trial) the additional effect and acceptance of the digital application, and efficacy in improving parental knowledge, behaviour and self-reported practices/attitudes related to the oral health preventive measures will be presented.

Conditions

  • Early Childhood Caries
  • Oral Hygiene
  • Oral Health

Interventions

OTHER

FU-APP

FU-APP is a web-based application using the guidelines and oral health recommendations provided by the current German "Ratgeber 2020". It provides information related to oral health care for the parents of children between 6 to 72 months of age. An account was made on a certified online web-development platform and an application was developed on it. This application serves as a practical guide for the parents of children under 6 years of age. It provides all the essential German guidelines related to first dental visits, expected dental findings, practical brushing technique steps, plaque disclosing activity, motivational brushing video, nutritional facts and behavioral habits to be avoided. It is a complete package of essential information and with high quality content that promotes prevention of ECC at an early age.

OTHER

Oral health recommendations

Oral health recommendations provided as usual (verbal/oral) according to the current German "Ratgeber 2020"

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University Medicine Greifswald

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jameela Abdul Haq, MSc · Universitätmedizin Greifswald

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
6 Months
Max Age
72 Months
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-10-01
Primary Completion
2021-05-01
Completion
2021-06-01

Countries

  • Germany

Study Locations

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