Impact of an Oral Health Intervention

University of North Carolina (UNC)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Eating Disorder

Treatments: Behavioral: Smiles Matter Oral Health Education Series

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03921632

15-3295

Details and patient eligibility

About

This pilot study will assess the effectiveness of an original oral health education program on affecting the behaviors of patients diagnosed with eating disorders.

Enrollment: 46 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 13 to 50 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patient of the UNC Center for Excellence for Eating Disorders inpatient unit or outpatient clinic.
• Diagnosis of anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa
• Aged 13-50 years
• English-speaking

Exclusion criteria

• Decisionally impaired (i.e., Incapable of providing informed consent in the opinion of the primary care provider in UNC Center for Excellence for Eating Disorders)
• Involuntarily committed to the inpatient service of the UNC Department of Psychiatry

Trial design

46 participants in 1 patient group

Education Program Effectiveness

Experimental group

Description:

Outpatients and inpatients from UNC Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders clinic

Treatment:

Behavioral: Smiles Matter Oral Health Education Series