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Oral Health Promotion Mediated by Teledentistry in Community-dwelling Older Adults of La Araucanía Region, Chile

NCT05917548 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 117

Last updated 2024-01-03

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Summary

The goal of this randomized clinical trial is to compare the knowledge, attitudes, and oral health self-efficacy in self-sufficient elders aged over 60 years of 4 cities of La Araucanía región, Chile.

The main questions it aims to answer are:

* Can the development and implementation of a teledentistry strategy focused on community-dwelling older adults of the La Araucanía region improve participants' knowledge, attitudes, and self-efficacy in oral health?
* Could this teledentistry strategy have acceptability greater than 80%?

Participants will receive a dental-medical-geriatric diagnosis in a mobile dental clinic supported by a web platform called Teleplatform of Geriatric Dental Specialties (TEGO) and individual oral health education.

The researchers will compare a comparison group that will receive face-to-face individual oral health education with an intervention group, called tele-education group, that will receive educational reinforcement through a teledentistry strategy mediated by oral health educational videos sent via WhatsApp; to see if there are differences in the knowledge, attitudes, and oral health self-efficacy between the groups.

Conditions

  • Oral Health Knowledge
  • Oral Health Attitudes
  • Oral Health Self-efficacy

Interventions

DEVICE

Teledentistry oral health promotion

Educational videos specially designed and validated for elderly (duration 4 to 6 minutes each one)

BEHAVIORAL

Face-to-Face oral health promotion

Standardized PowerPoint presentation of 15 minutes about the most common or dangerous oral diseases (dental caries, periodontal disease and oral cancer), and toothbrushing and flossing practice in dental models

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Subvención Presidencial, Ministerio de Hacienda, Chile

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Centro Interuniversitario de Envejecimiento Saludable (CIES)

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Beca de Postgrado Magíster Nacional, ANID

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Fernanda Muñoz Sepúlveda

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
60 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-03-03
Primary Completion
2023-08-30
Completion
2023-10-14

Countries

  • Chile

Study Locations

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