Attitudes and Knowledge of Oral Health Among Nursing Personnel

Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice Clinical Trial

Official title:

Attitudes and Knowledge of Oral Health Among Nursing Personnel

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03376022
• Other study ID #: Nursing personnel, oral health
• Status: Completed
• Start date: May 22, 2018
• Est. completion date: February 2, 2020

Study information

• Verified date: May 2020
• Source: Dalarna County Council, Sweden
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Oral Health care has been shown to have low priority among nursing personnel, especially among personnel with shorter education.

Description:

As the population gets older and keep their natural teeth high up in age, in most cases throughout life, it is of importance to help the older maintain a good oral health when the cognitive functions and physical ability decreases. In 1999, a new dental care system was introduced with the aim to offer elderly with long-term need for extensive care, home visits for oral health assessment and, if necessary, be offered the necessary dental care. The aim was also to offer nursing personnel education and training in dental health and oral care, in order to provide and perform oral care. The effect of the education program has never been evaluated.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 4500
• Est. completion date: February 2, 2020
• Est. primary completion date: February 2, 2020
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Nursing personnel in nursing home for elderly

• Must be able to read and understand Swedish

Exclusion Criteria:

• None

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Attitude
• Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
• Oral Health

Intervention

Other:
• Attitudes, knowledge
To investigate attitudes and knowledge to oral Health and oral care

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Sweden	Kristina Edman	Falun	Dalarna

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Dalarna County Council, Sweden

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Sweden, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Attitudes to Oral Health and oral care	A questionnaire, Dental Coping Beliefs Scale (DCBS) will be used to investigate attitudes to, and knowledge of oral health among nursing staff caring for home-dwelling older people. DCBS investigates three dimensions; Locus of control (internal and external), self-efficacy and oral-health care believes.; Apart from descriptive statistics, a logistic regression model will be used to analyze the relationship between the sum scores for the factors Oral health care beliefs, Internal locus of control, External locus of control and background variables (age, work experience and earlier adjunct education).	February 2019