Oral Health Promotion Program for Persons With Severe Mental Illness

Chang Bing Show Chwan Memorial Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Evaluate the Effects of an Oral Health Promotion Program

Treatments: Behavioral: a composite intervention with both group and individual components for oral health promotion program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04464941

RD103035018

Details and patient eligibility

About

A cluster randomized controlled study was carried out in chronic psychiatric wards of a general hospital in central Taiwan. Sixty-eight eligible male individuals admitted to 2 wards were randomly assigned to an experimental and a control group. Participants in the experimental group underwent an oral health promotion program that consisted of biweekly group education sessions, and a 12-week individual behavioral modification for oral hygiene course. The participants in the control group received usual care only. Dental plaque (measured by the Plaque Control Index) was examined by a single dentist before and after the experiment.

Enrollment: 68 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 20 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients admitted in chronic psychiatric wards were eligible.

Exclusion criteria

• significant cognitive disabilities, severe hearing impairment, orthodontic appliances, an edentulous status, or a handicap when tooth-brushing

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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68 participants in 2 patient groups

oral health promotion program

Experimental group

Description:

The oral health promotion program was a composite intervention with both group and individual components. The group intervention consisted of: 1. Group oral health education 2. Display of Bass tooth-brushing methods 3. Broadcasting of songs as tooth-brushing reminders; The individual interventions included: 1. Instruction in the Bass tooth-brushing method 2. Individual behavioral modification method

Treatment:

Behavioral: a composite intervention with both group and individual components for oral health promotion program

Usual care group

No Intervention group