Oral Health Promotion: Youth as Agents Of Change

Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU)

Status: Withdrawn

Conditions: Oral Hygiene

Treatments: Behavioral: Social media

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03947203

HM20014618

Details and patient eligibility

About

This upstream communication study may aid in our understanding of the nature of the parent-adolescent relationship and how we can use this relationship to promote better oral health of the parents and adolescents.

Full description

Given the proliferation of social media as a tool for health communication, this proposed pilot study will be conducted with adolescents and their parents in the greater Richmond area, including Petersburg, and examines whether disseminating oral health information to adolescents via Facebook will have a greater impact on their sharing of the message to their parents than providing them the information in written format- using a pamphlet. We hypothesize that parents in the Facebook arm of the intervention will be more likely to report receiving the oral health message from their child than those in the pamphlet arm. Further, this study investigates whether parents whose adolescents re provided the information via Facebook will have greater increase in intent to schedule dental appointments and dental appointment scheduling behaviors than parents whose children are in the pamphlet group. We hypothesize that parents in the Facebook group will report greater increase in dental appointment scheduling than those whose adolescents are in the pamphlet group. Lastly, we would like to explore whether parents and adolescents in the Facebook arm will have greater increase in oral health knowledge and greater decreases in perceived barriers to oral health activities, both which may be related to increases in parents' dental appointment scheduling.

Sex: All

Ages: 12 to 18 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• enrolled in grades 7 through 12
• between the ages of 12 and 18
• currently living in the same household as their legal guardian(s) who agree to participate in this study
• live in the greater Richmond and Petersburg area
• uses a smartphone
• has not had a dental appointment in the past 6 months

Exclusion criteria

• not between the ages of 12 and 18
• do not live with their legal guardian (s)
• are not residents of the greater Richmond and Petersburg area
• have had a dental appointment in the past six months
• legal guardian does not agree to participate

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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0 participants in 2 patient groups

Pamphlet

No Intervention group

Description:

Provided with only a pamphlet containing educational material about oral health

Social media

Experimental group

Description:

Provided pamphlet containing educational material about oral health and will have access to a private Facebook group, where we will share informational messages and content relating to oral health

Treatment:

Behavioral: Social media