NCT03641885

A Social Media Intervention on Promoting Oral Heath Among Iranian Adolescents

A Randomized Trial of a Social Media Intervention on Promoting Oral Heath Among Iranian Adolescents

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 791 (actual)
• Sponsor: Qazvin University Of Medical Sciences · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 12 Years – 16 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Online social networking sites, such as Telegram, possess a number of useful features that could enhance oral health promotion interventions, including the ability of users to share personal information, which is aggregated and displayed to other users .This study is a longitudinal controlled trial that is designed to investigate the effectiveness of a multi-component intervention on improving oral health in adolescents and their mothers. Participants will be allocated in three groups with a) an intervention group in which mothers and children receive the intervention and questionnaires via Telegram, b) only the children receive the intervention via Telegram and mothers and children receive the questionnaires, and c) mothers and children are in active control group and only receive the questionnaires. The intervention package contains behavior change techniques targeting outcome expectancy, self-efficacy, action planning, coping planning, and self-monitoring. The active control group receives an information sheet regarding recommendations on Oral health behaviors. There will be 3 assessment points in time, baseline, 1 month and 6 months after the interventions. The primary outcome of this study is to estimate the dyadic mechanisms between mothers and their children regarding improving oral health. Secondary outcome is to investigate whether oral health behavior did improve in the intervention groups in general and also to find the psychological mechanism behind the changes during the time of the study.

Conditions

• Health Behavior
• Adolescent Behavior
• Parent-Child Relations

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	mothers and adolescents	The intervention package will be sent to mothers and adolescents via Telegram social media. It contains behavior change techniques targeting outcome expectancy, self-efficacy, action planning, coping planning, and self-monitoring. There will be 3 assessment points in time, baselines, 1 month and six months after interventions.
BEHAVIORAL	adolescents	The intervention package will be sent to only adolescents via Telegram social media. It contains behavior change techniques targeting outcome expectancy, self-efficacy, action planning, coping planning, and self-monitoring. There will be 3 assessment points in time, baselines, 1 month and six months after interventions.
BEHAVIORAL	active control	The active control group receives an information sheet regarding recommendations on oral health behavior via telegram. There will be 3 assessment points in time, with 1 month and six months in between.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-02-01
• Primary completion: 2018-10-01
• Completion: 2018-11-01
• First posted: 2018-08-22
• Last updated: 2018-12-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Iran