Effect of Dental Educational Program on Oral Hygiene Status Among Institutionalized Deaf Children

Cairo University (CU)

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Hearing Loss

Treatments: Other: no educational program; Behavioral: educational programm

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03030014

SShaalan

Details and patient eligibility

About

assess the effect of dental educational program on oral hygiene among institutionalized hearing impaired and mute children in Cairo, Egypt.

Full description

• Evaluate participants satisfaction regarding the dental educational program(learning teeth brushing technique)
• Measure the oral hygiene index simplified to the participants at a different follow up periods for assessing the effect of the dental educational program on oral hygiene.

Enrollment: 238 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 to 12 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Children aged from 6-12 years with mixed dentition.
• Institutionalized Deaf children in Cairo, Egypt.

Exclusion criteria

• Children above the age of 12 years and below the age of 6 years
• Patient un able to give informed consent
• Patient suffering from any other type of disability such as (mental retardation, physically and mentally handicapped, .etc.)
• Medically compromised patient
• Patient who were absent in the day of examination

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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238 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

educational programm

Experimental group

Description:

Oral health education will be done for children and their care givers about various diseases affecting the oral cavity, the effects of bad oral hygiene and tooth decay, importance of tooth brushing, and correct methods of tooth brushing. Three follow up examination is assessed after one week, three weeks and six weeks using questionnaire for evaluation of participant satisfaction about oral health and using OHIS index for evaluating the effect of the dental educational program on the oral health status of deaf children.

Treatment:

Behavioral: educational programm

no educational programm

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

without educational program Three follow up examination is assessed after one week, three weeks and six weeks using questionnaire for evaluation of participant satisfaction about oral health and using OHIS index for evaluating the effect of the dental educational program on the oral health status of deaf children.

Treatment:

Other: no educational program