Effect of Dental Educational Program on Oral Hygiene Status Among Institutionalized Deaf Children

Hearing Loss Clinical Trial

Official title:

Effect of Dental Educational Program on Oral Hygiene Status Among Institutionalized Deaf Children. A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Not yet recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03030014
• Other study ID #: SShaalan
• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• First received: January 20, 2017
• Last updated: February 6, 2017
• Start date: February 2017
• Est. completion date: June 2017

Study information

• Verified date: February 2017
• Source: Cairo University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

assess the effect of dental educational program on oral hygiene among institutionalized hearing impaired and mute children in Cairo, Egypt.

Description:

• Evaluate participants satisfaction regarding the dental educational program(learning teeth brushing technique)

• Measure the oral hygiene index simplified to the participants at a different follow up periods for assessing the effect of the dental educational program on oral hygiene.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Enrollment: 238
• Est. completion date: June 2017
• Est. primary completion date: June 2017
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 6 Years to 12 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Children aged from 6-12 years with mixed dentition.

• Institutionalized Deaf children in Cairo, Egypt.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Children above the age of 12 years and below the age of 6 years

• Patient un able to give informed consent

• Patient suffering from any other type of disability such as (mental retardation, physically and mentally handicapped, .etc.)

• Medically compromised patient

• Patient who were absent in the day of examination

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Hearing Loss

Intervention

Behavioral:
• educational programm
Oral health education will be done for children and their care givers about various diseases affecting the oral cavity, the effects of bad oral hygiene and tooth decay, importance of tooth brushing, and correct methods of tooth brushing.Three follow up examination is assessed after one week, three weeks and six weeks using questionnaire for evaluation of participant satisfaction about oral health and using OHIS index for evaluating the effect of the dental educational program on the oral health status of deaf children.

Other:
• no educational program
without oral health education will be done for children and their care givers about various diseases affecting the oral cavity, the effects of bad oral hygiene and tooth decay, importance of tooth brushing, and correct methods of tooth brushing.Three follow up examination is assessed after one week, three weeks and six weeks using questionnaire for evaluation of participant satisfaction about oral health and using OHIS index for evaluating the effect of the dental educational program on the oral health status of deaf children.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Cairo University

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	patient satisfaction	this outcome will be assessed via questionnaire	6 weeks
Secondary	oral hygiene index simplified		6 weeks