Supervised Brushing Programme for Intellectual Disabled Students

MD Equation

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Randomized Controlled Trial; Oral Health; Intellectual Disability

Treatments: Behavioral: 3-month supervised tooth brushing programme; Behavioral: oral health education talk

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Industry

Identifiers

NCT03234231

HM01

Details and patient eligibility

About

Intellectual disabled persons faced more dental problems. According to a medical review paper of international and local studies, this group has poorer dental hygiene, more severe gum disease and more untreated caries. In 2010, a report from the guardians in Hong Kong mentioned that most adults with intellectual disability cannot clean their teeth, the have dental problems and it is very difficult for intellectually disabled students to co-operate during the dental treatment. In order to alleviate their dental problems, supervised toothbrushing programme and an oral health education talk are proposed. The investigators investigate the effectiveness of the supervised toothbrushing programme and an oral health education talk. The target group of the study is mild to moderate grade intellectual disabled students of special schools in Hong Kong. A clustered randomised controlled trial design is adopted.

Full description

Intellectual disabled persons faced more dental problems. According to a medical review paper of international and local studies, this group has poorer dental hygiene, more severe gum disease and more untreated caries. In 2010, a report from the guardians in Hong Kong mentioned that most adults with intellectual disability cannot clean their teeth, the have dental problems and it is very difficult for intellectually disabled students to co-operate during the dental treatment. In order to alleviate their dental problems, supervised toothbrushing programme and an oral health education talk are proposed. The investigators investigate the effectiveness of the supervised toothbrushing programme and an oral health education talk. The target group of the study is mild to moderate grade intellectual disabled students of special schools in Hong Kong. A clustered randomised controlled trial design is adopted.

Enrollment: 602 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 to 18 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Mild and moderate grade intellectual disabled students in special schools.

Exclusion criteria

• 1. Those students who have simultaneously joined other oral health programme during the study period.
• 2. Those students with the presence of conditions rendering a need of antibiotic prophylaxis prior to periodontal examination e.g. rheumatic heart disease.
• 3. Uncooperative students that oral examination is not possible.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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602 participants in 2 patient groups

Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

This group receive nothing during the study period.

Intervention Group

Experimental group

Description:

A 3-month supervised tooth brushing programme will be provided to the students. An oral health education talk with written material delivered to the carers and the students

Treatment:

Behavioral: oral health education talk

Behavioral: 3-month supervised tooth brushing programme