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A Mouth Education Program for Dry Mouth

NCT05964959 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 70

Last updated 2026-04-21

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Summary

The goal of this cluster based intervention trial is to evaluate the effect of a nurse-led patient education program on dry mouth in patients with a life-limiting condition or frailty.

The Mouth Educational Program (MEP) is a nurse-led patient education program, in which trained nurses use current clinical, palliative dry mouth guidelines in a structured manner to discuss causes, consequences and interventions with the patients and to create an appropriate treatment plan. This intervention will be compared to a control group receiving care as usual.

Therefore, the main question it aims to answer is:

Does a nurse-led patient education program reduce dry mouth complaints in patients with a life-limiting condition or frailty?

Participants will be asked to answer questionnaires and, when part of the intervention group, partake in the Mouth Educational Program (MEP).

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Mouth Educational Program

The Mouth Educational Program is a nurse-led patient education program for dry mouth in patients with a life-limiting condition or frailty.

OTHER

Care as Usual

Care as usual is defined as the standard dry mouth care as provided by participants' own treating physicians.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • ZonMw: The Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development

    collaborator OTHER

  • Leiden University Medical Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Yvette M van der Linden, Prof. dr. · Leiden University Medical Centre

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-06-15
Primary Completion
2024-12-31
Completion
2026-04-15

Countries

  • Netherlands

Study Locations

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Diseases

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