Correlation Between Knowledge, Attitude and Practices of Caregivers and Oral Health Status of Alzheimer's Disease Patients

Cairo University (CU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Practices of Caregivers; Knowledge of Caregivers; Attitudes of Caregivers; Oral Health Status of Alzheimer Patients

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07161089

CU 25 8 2025

Details and patient eligibility

About

A cross-sectional study to assess the relation between the knowledge, attitude and practices or caregivers of Alzheimer's disease patients and the oral health status of these patients.

Full description

A cross-sectional study to assess knowledge, attitude and practices of care givers of Alzheimer's disease patients using a questionnaire as a tool and evaluating the oral health status of these patients by recording DMF scores and simplified oral hygiene index in order to assess if there is any correlation between those two variables

Enrollment: 30 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 60+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria for caregivers:

• all primary caregivers serving Alzheimer's disease patients.

Inclusion criteria for Alzheimer's disease patients :

* all patients whose medical condition allows for an oral examination

Exclusion Criteria for caregivers:

• caregivers who are not directly involved in the daily care
• caregivers who refuse to participate in the study

Exclusion criteria for Alzheimer's disease patients :

• patients with deteriorated medical condition that do not permit clinical examination.

Trial design

30 participants in 2 patient groups

caregivers of Alzheimer's disease patients

Description:

knowledge, attitudes and practices of primary caregivers of Alzheimer's disease patients

Alzheimer's disease patients

Description:

oral health status of Alzheimer's disease patients