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The Mouth Matters in Mental Health Study

NCT05545228 · Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 79

Last updated 2024-05-07

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Summary

To investigate the feasibility and acceptability of a link work intervention to increase planned dental care visits for patients with severe mental illness, and through this to improve their oral health.

1. To understand what constitutes best practice when delivering link work around dental visiting.
2. To identify what training needs exist for support workers around link work.
3. To determine whether patients with SMI are willing to be randomised to a trial targeting dental visiting.
4. To understand whether it is feasible to collect clinical outcome and planned dental appointment data in this population.
5. To explore if, and how, patients with severe mental illness engage with a link work intervention.
6. To understand the potential factors impacting (e.g. facilitators and barriers) acceptability and delivery.

Conditions

  • Mental Disorders, Severe

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Link work intervention

Intervention from a link worker to support participants to access dental services.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Lancaster University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jasper Palmier-Claus, PhD, DClinPsy · Lancaster University

  • Rebecca Harris, BDS, PhD · University of Liverpool

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-09-01
Primary Completion
2024-04-01
Completion
2024-07-31

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Study Locations

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