NCT04945252

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

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

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 307 (actual)
• Sponsor: Khartoum Centre for Research and Medical Training · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 5 Years – 8 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

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

Detailed 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.

Conditions

• Dental Caries in Children

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIAGNOSTIC_TEST	Signpost caries	Identify carious lesion according to ICCMS visual criteria

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-06-19
• Primary completion: 2019-06-20
• Completion: 2020-03-11
• First posted: 2021-06-30
• Last updated: 2021-07-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Sudan