Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT03478748
The Impact of Anticipatory Guidance on Early Childhood Caries: a Quasi-experimental Study
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 478 (actual)
- Sponsor
- University of Malaya · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 2 Years – 6 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
Summary
This study aimed to compare the impact of anticipatory guidance on the caries incidence of 2-3-year-old preschool children and their 4-6-year-old siblings, as well as on their mothers' oral health literacy, as compared to the conventional Ministry of Health (MOH) programme.
Detailed description
This quasi-experimental study was conducted at two government dental clinics in Batu Pahat District, Malaysia. The samples comprised of 478 mother-child-sibling trios (233 families in the intervention group, and 245 families in the control group). An oral health package named the Family Dental Wellness Programme (FDWP) was designed to provide anticipatory guidance to the intervention group at six-month intervals over three years. The control group received the standard MOH oral health education activities. The impact of FDWP on net caries increment, caries prevented fraction, and mother's oral health literacy was assessed after three years of intervention.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| OTHER | Dental health education | Anticipatory guidance given to mothers to promote their children's oral health. |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2015-01-02
- Primary completion
- 2017-12-15
- Completion
- 2017-12-15
- First posted
- 2018-03-27
- Last updated
- 2018-03-27
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Malaysia
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT03478748. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.