"Safeguard Your Smile" an Oral Health Literacy Intervention Promoting Positive Oral Hygiene Self-care Behavior

Université de Montréal

Status: Completed

Conditions: Dental Plaque; Gingivitis

Treatments: Behavioral: Safeguard Your Smile an oral health literacy intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02521155

15-071-CERES-D

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of the investigators' study is to assess effectiveness of community based oral health literacy intervention promoting positive oral hygiene self-care behavior among Montreal's Punjabi immigrants.

Full description

There will be 140 participants in this study who will be randomly allocated into either intervention group (70) or control group (70).The intervention group will receive one hour long "Safeguard Your Smile" intervention and control group will receive no intervention and only a conventional pamphlet. Data will be collected at baseline and after 3 months using three research instruments. i) Oral hygiene self-care knowledge and oral hygiene self-care behavior will be assessed using self administered questionnaire. ii) Using Loe and Sillness indices, plaque and gingival index scores will be measured. iii) And oral health literacy of participants will be measured with the TS-REALD tool.The data analysis will include descriptive statistics and frequency tables will be provided for both baseline and endpoint data of the both groups. Continuous variables will be summarized with mean, standard deviation and range and for the categorical variables; frequency counts and percentage of subjects within each category will be provided. An array of data analysis including t-test, correlations and logistic regression will be performed assessing effectiveness of the Safeguard Your Smile intervention.

Enrollment: 140 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 60 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Punjabi immigrants who are Montreal residents
• Be in good general health
• Will give written informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• Non permanent residents e.g. refugees
• Presence of orthodontic appliances
• Having any disease of soft/ hard oral tissues e.g. advanced periodontitis
• Having any systemic disease e.g. diabetes
• On certain medications such as phenytoin.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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140 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

Safeguard Your Smile an oral health literacy intervention.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Safeguard Your Smile an oral health literacy intervention

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

No intervention, only a conventional pamphlet will be given.