Oral Health Promotion: Youth as Agents Of Change

Oral Hygiene Clinical Trial

Official title:

Oral Health Promotion: Youth as Agents Of Change

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Withdrawn

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03947203
• Other study ID #: HM20014618
• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: October 2020
• Est. completion date: October 2021

Study information

• Verified date: October 2020
• Source: Virginia Commonwealth University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This upstream communication study may aid in our understanding of the nature of the parent-adolescent relationship and how we can use this relationship to promote better oral health of the parents and adolescents.

Description:

Given the proliferation of social media as a tool for health communication, this proposed pilot study will be conducted with adolescents and their parents in the greater Richmond area, including Petersburg, and examines whether disseminating oral health information to adolescents via Facebook will have a greater impact on their sharing of the message to their parents than providing them the information in written format- using a pamphlet. We hypothesize that parents in the Facebook arm of the intervention will be more likely to report receiving the oral health message from their child than those in the pamphlet arm. Further, this study investigates whether parents whose adolescents re provided the information via Facebook will have greater increase in intent to schedule dental appointments and dental appointment scheduling behaviors than parents whose children are in the pamphlet group. We hypothesize that parents in the Facebook group will report greater increase in dental appointment scheduling than those whose adolescents are in the pamphlet group. Lastly, we would like to explore whether parents and adolescents in the Facebook arm will have greater increase in oral health knowledge and greater decreases in perceived barriers to oral health activities, both which may be related to increases in parents' dental appointment scheduling.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Withdrawn
• Enrollment: 0
• Est. completion date: October 2021
• Est. primary completion date: October 2021
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 12 Years to 18 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• enrolled in grades 7 through 12

• between the ages of 12 and 18

• currently living in the same household as their legal guardian(s) who agree to participate in this study

• live in the greater Richmond and Petersburg area

• uses a smartphone

• has not had a dental appointment in the past 6 months

Exclusion Criteria:

• not between the ages of 12 and 18

• do not live with their legal guardian (s)

• are not residents of the greater Richmond and Petersburg area

• have had a dental appointment in the past six months

• legal guardian does not agree to participate

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Oral Hygiene

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Social media
Provided pamphlet and a private Facebook group where informational messages and content relating to oral health will be shared

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Virginia Commonwealth University	DentaQuest Institute, Inc.

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Communication	Sharing of health information measured as a count of shared oral health messages reported on a survey question.	8 weeks
Primary	Appointment - child	Number of child dental appointments scheduled based on self-report	8 weeks
Primary	Appointment - adult	Number of adult dental appointments scheduled based on self-report	8 weeks
Secondary	Oral health knowledge	Change in number of correct responses on a 12 item oral health knowledge and screening survey	Baseline to 8 weeks
Secondary	Perceived barriers	Change in number of barriers to oral health activities	Baseline to 8 weeks