Relationship Between Periodontal Health Status, Body Mass Index and Quality of Diet in a Sample of Adult Patients.

Conditions Influencing Health Status Clinical Trial

Official title:

The Association Between Periodontal Health Status, Body Mass Index and Quality of Diet in a Sample of Adult Egyptian Patients. A Hospital Based Cross-sectional Study

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04557670
• Other study ID #: PER1-1-1
• Status: Recruiting
• Start date: November 2020
• Est. completion date: November 2021

Study information

• Verified date: September 2020
• Source: Cairo University
• Contact: Abdullah al-shantub, Master
• Phone: 00201013993637
• Email: abdullah.alshentub[@]dentistry.cu.edu.eg
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

The study is a cross-sectional study investigating the relationship between periodontal health condition, body mass index and quality of diet on adult Egyptian dental patients attending the oral diagnostic center at faculty of Dentistry, Cairo University.

The faculty of Dentistry, Cairo University is an open public facility, a tertiary healthcare and a referral center

Description:

• Dental patients will be recruited in a consecutive manner from the outpatient Diagnostic center, Faculty of Dentistry, Cairo University.

• Medical history will be taken, thorough oral examination will be done, and a full questionnaire will be filled for each patient.

• Before filling the questionnaire, the aim of the study will be explained to the patient and the patient's acceptance to participate in the survey will be received.

• Non-respondent patients or patients refusing to participate will be reported with the cause of their refusal.

• The questionnaire will be filled through a face-to-face personal interview with the patient using simple, short, easily comprehended questions.

• Full questionnaire will be filled, then full mouth periodontal examination and charting will be done for each patient.

• The interview questions will be prepared in English, translated into Arabic and then reverse translated by a certified translator to ensure accuracy.

• All the interviews will be done by the same investigator.

• Convetional Clinical examination will be held on a dental unit using the light of the unit and a mirror.

• Periodontal health status will be evaluated by full mouth charting using UNC 15 periodontal probe, including assessment of Probing Depth (PD), Clinical Attachment Level (CAL), Bleeding on probing (BOP), plaque index (PI), body mass index (BMI) and health eating index (HEI).

• The questionnaire which was applied in study will include the following:

1. Questions including section for demographic information of age, gender, marital status, income, weight, length.

2. Dietary habits were self-reported through completion of a short form of a validated food frequency questionnaire (Ruiz-Cabello et al., 2017).

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 328
• Est. completion date: November 2021
• Est. primary completion date: November 2021
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 70 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Patients whose age is between 18-70 years old.

2. Provide informed consent.

3. Patient have at least 20 natural teeth.

4. Patient had no received periodontal treatment within previous 4 months.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Individuals with chronic systemic diseases such as cancer, osteoporosis, endocrine and hematological Pathologies.

2. Patients having problem in opening their mouth or undergoing inter-maxillary fixation where oral examination will not be possible.

3. Pregnant women.

4. Patients diagnosed with psychiatric problems or intoxicated with alcohol or drugs.

5. Patients with orthodontic appliances.

6. Patient had autoimmune condition.

7. All patients require prophylaxis at least those attending the diagnostic center.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Conditions Influencing Health Status

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Egypt	Faculty of Oral and Dental Medicine-CU	Cairo

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Cairo University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Egypt, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Periodontal health in association with Body mass index	(weight and height will be combined to report BMI in kg/m^2); - To estimate the level of overweight and obesity. commonly used the (BMI); was calculated as the body weight (kg) divided by the square of the height (m^2).	An average of 1 year through study completion
Secondary	Quality of diet	- Dietary habits were self-reported through completion of a short form of a validated food frequency questionnaire. in which participants indicated the frequency of consumption (number of times per day, week, month, or year) of 34 foods divided by food groups: fruit, vegetables, dairy products, fish, cereals, pulses, eggs, meat, fats, sweets, beverages, and nuts.	An average of 1 year through study completion