The Impact of School Teachers in Care Navigation and Signposting Dental Caries in Primary School Children

Khartoum Centre for Research and Medical Training

Status: Completed

Conditions: Dental Caries in Children

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: Signpost caries

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04945252

Khrt02

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study aims to investigate the role of school teachers in care navigation and signposting dental caries in primary school children.

Full description

Dental caries is a multifactorial disease with high prevalence in children. Dental caries is a global public health problem with detrimental impact in developing countries. Despite advances in caries management and detection poorer countries continue to suffer a high burden of disease. Advances in care navigation and sign-posting concepts are increasingly being utilized in general health care to aid early diagnosis and ease the burden of disease in poorer communities. This study aims to investigate the role of primary school teachers as care navigators with regard to dental caries in children.

Enrollment: 307 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 5 to 8 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Healthy school children between the ages of 5-8 years Regular school attender Lives in the local village Co-operative

Exclusion criteria

• known medical history or disability
• irregular school attenders

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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307 participants in 2 patient groups

Care Navigation group

Experimental group

Description:

The teachers will signpost dental caries based on ICCMS visual criteria and refer to the nearest service. Annual monitoring of caries

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: Signpost caries

No internvention

No Intervention group

Description:

Caries experience (dmft) activity monitored annually