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Supervised Brushing Programme for Intellectual Disabled Students

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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

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.
    1. Those students with the presence of conditions rendering a need of antibiotic prophylaxis prior to periodontal examination e.g. rheumatic heart disease.
    1. Uncooperative students that oral examination is not possible.

Trial design

Primary purpose

Health Services Research

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

Double Blind

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

Trial contacts and locations

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Central trial contact

Cecilia Young, BDS(HK),MPH

Data sourced from clinicaltrials.gov

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