The Effect of Oral Health Education in Pregnancy

Pregnancy Clinical Trial

Official title:

Oral Health Education in Pregnancy Promotes Knowledge,Attitude and Performance of Pregnant Women About Oral Health.

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01652300
• Other study ID #: MUMS
• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2/Phase 3
• First received: July 17, 2012
• Last updated: July 27, 2012
• Start date: June 2008
• Est. completion date: December 2008

Study information

• Verified date: July 2012
• Source: Gonabad University of Medical Sciences
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Iran: Ministry of Health
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Periodontal diseased during pregnancy are associated with many unpleasant prenatal consequences including preeclampsia, preterm labor, and low birth weight (LBW). Treatment of such diseases and observance of oral and dental hygiene may to some large extent prevent such consequences. Unfortunately previous studies have shown that pregnant women have very little knowledge of oral and dental health implications. Given the fact that pregnancy my be a unique opportunity to initiate correct hygienic behaviors in young women, this paper has focused on studying the effects of oral and dental health education during pregnancy.

In this single blind clinical trial study,140 pregnant women receiving care from Khaje Rabi Regional Health Center in Mashhad city who were members of a community based multi-center were chosen by systematic clustering methods and randomly allocated into test and control groups. After intervention, two questionnaires were completed for demographic and pregnancy details of the participants. Knowledge, health belief and health behavior were assessed before intervention. The test group had two educational sessions lasting 1 hour, focused on oral and dental health and especially on oral and dental health during pregnancy. women in the control group received no education. Knowledge, health belief and health behavior were assessed immediately after and one month after intervention of all participants. Analysis of data was done using SPSS, t-test and chi-square tests.

Description:

In this clinical trial study,140 pregnant women receiving care from Khaje Rabi Regional Health Center in Mashhad city who were members of a community based multi-center were chosen by systematic clustering methods and randomly allocated into test and control groups. After intervention, two questionnaires were completed for demographic and pregnancy details of the participants. Knowledge, health belief and health behavior were assessed before intervention. The test group had two educational sessions lasting 1 hour, focused on oral and dental health and especially on oral and dental health during pregnancy. women in the control group received no education. Knowledge, health belief and health behavior were assessed immediately after and one month after intervention of all participants. Analysis of data was done using SPSS, t-test and chi-square tests.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 142
• Est. completion date: December 2008
• Est. primary completion date: December 2008
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Female
• Age group: 18 Years to 40 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Spoke Persian

• minimum education margin of primary school studies

• Gestational age between 12 and 32 weeks

• lacked any type of physical or mental problem

• lacked of any disease that could prevent from taking dental care

Exclusion Criteria:

• who did not attend the education sessions

• failed to complete the questionnaires

• receive any special education between post-test and stability test

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Investigator), Primary Purpose: Prevention

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Pregnancy

Intervention

Behavioral:
• two educational sessions
The test group had two educational sessions lasting 1 hour, focused on oral and dental health and especially on oral and dental health during pregnancy
• no education
women in the control group received no education

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Iran, Islamic Republic of	Mums	Mashhad	Khorasan Razavi

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Gonabad University of Medical Sciences	Mashhad University of Medical Sciences

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Iran, Islamic Republic of, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Score of KAP about oral health		2 months	Yes

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