Clinical Trial Details
— Status: Not yet recruiting
Administrative data
| NCT number |
NCT06393933 |
| Other study ID # |
20122 |
| Secondary ID |
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| Status |
Not yet recruiting |
| Phase |
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| First received |
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| Last updated |
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| Start date |
June 2024 |
| Est. completion date |
October 2024 |
Study information
| Verified date |
May 2024 |
| Source |
Cairo University |
| Contact |
n/a |
| Is FDA regulated |
No |
| Health authority |
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| Study type |
Observational
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Clinical Trial Summary
Oral health knowledge is considered to be an essential prerequisite for oral health related
attitude and behavior. Attitude is a mirror of individuals' beliefs, experiences, perception
of the cultures, and social interactions. Basically, positive health attitude means positive
health behavior. This also applies to a great extent to oral health attitude and is of
paramount importance when it relates to oral health professionals. Therefore, with proper
knowledge and oral health behaviour, oral health professionals can play an important role in
oral health education of their patients as well as act as role models for these patients and
community at large.
Description:
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), oral health problems are still not well
controlled globally despite the considerable improvements in oral health measures among
populations. This state of oral health might be related to the rapid development of oral
diseases following lifestyle changes such as consumption of a sugar-rich diet, lack of water
fluoridation, and other socio-environmental factors. The high incidence and prevalence of
oral diseases globally qualifies oral health as a serious public health issue. In addition,
oral disease treatments are considered to be the fourth most expensive disease treatments in
most industrial countries. That makes oral health a huge burden at both the individual and
the community level. Oral disease is a worldwide epidemic and has imposed an enormous burden
on the health and economy of the whole society. The number of people with untreated oral
conditions worldwide increased from 2.5 million in 1990 to 3.5 billion in 2015, with a 64.0%
increase in disability-adjusted life years due to oral conditions. Among these conditions,
untreated dental caries, severe periodontitis, and missing teeth are the three most common
and chronic 3 infectious oral diseases. Fortunately, most oral diseases, especially dental
caries and periodontal diseases, are largely preventable through various promotion
interventions. Oral health education (OHE) was once considered the most cost-effective
intervention.
Oral health is considered an important component of general health that has been shown to
influence the quality of life. Oral health may affect the individual's appearance, social
functions, and physical and psychological daily activities. Periodontal health is a major
component of oral health that concentrates on the prevention of inflammatory diseases in
supportive tissue surrounding the teeth. Oral hygiene practice can be defined as any effort
performed by the individual to remove supra-gingival biofilm. Studies have shown that poor
oral hygiene will lead to gingival inflammation and have established a linear relationship
between plaque development and the presence of gingivitis. The development of gingivitis had
been linked to the development of periodontitis. Therefore, cleaning the oral cavity is
essential because it removes bacterial accumulation and prevents periodontal disease
progression. Dental students are the future leaders in oral health care and are expected to
be teachers of oral hygiene as well as role models of self-care regimens for their patients
as their dental education progresses. In a dental school setting, it is critical to evaluate
yearly progress of dental students learning about self-care regimens such as oral health
attitudes and behavior.
The Egyptian dental education model defines a strong preclinical-clinical contrast.
Furthermore, it implements discipline-based curricula, in which large-group educational
lectures and apprenticeship methods of clinical training are the primary methods of teaching.
This sharp transition from the preclinical to the clinical phases of education has profound
effects on dental students, as they shift from their function as recipients of theoretical
oral hygiene education to becoming contributors and educators themselves in charge of actual
patients' oral health.
The Hiroshima University-Dental Behavioural Inventory (HU-DBI), developed by Kawamura, has
been frequently used to assess university students' oral health-related knowledge, attitudes,
and behaviours due to its high psychometric properties that associate students' replies with
clinical outcomes, including dental caries and periodontal diseases. It consists of twenty
questions eliciting dichotomous responses (agree/disagree).
During the last 30 years, the HU-DBI has been used by dental researchers in more than 10
European countries, including Belgium, Croatia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy,
Lithuania, Turkey, and the United Kingdom. In addition, the HU-DBI has been translated from
Japanese into English, Finnish, Chinese, Korean and Arabic for cross-cultural comparisons.
The study aims at evaluating the Oral Health Knowledge, Attitude and Behaviour of Preclinical
and Clinical Adult Egyptian Dental Students enrolled at the faculty of dentistry, Cairo
University using a modified Hiroshima University-Dental Behaviour Inventory (HUDBI) survey.
