NCT06961890

Change in Hygiene and Sugar Comsuption Habits After Use of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Pediatric Dentistry in Twins

• Status: Active Not Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 222 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Sao Paulo · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 5 Years – 14 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The objective of this study is to verify the changing habits and their maintenance after using cognitive behavioral therapy, exploring factors that may be associated with these stages and the moment in which they occur.

Detailed description

The objective of this clinical trial is to verify the time until changing habits and their maintenance after using cognitive behavioral therapy, exploring the following factors that may be associated with these stages and the moment in which they occur: * Evaluate the cost-effectiveness of guidance based on cognitive behavioral therapy in relation to changes aimed at oral hygiene and diet habits, through a before and after study; * Investigate individual and contextual preferences associated with adherence and maintenance of behaviors associated with oral health (diet and oral hygiene) through a Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) * Measure the effect of retaining hygiene and diet guidance on pairs who did not submit the calendar and on those who submitted the calendar.

Conditions

• Oral Manifestations
• Child Behavior
• Adolescent Behavior
• Change; Cognitive

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Principals of cognitive behavioral therapy on guided changing hygiene and sugar comsuption habits	The twin pairs will also receive guidance on healthy sugar consumption and oral hygiene habits, as the first intervention among the dental interventions received. For the baseline assessment, each participant answered a questionnaire about their diet the day before and about oral hygiene, in addition to demonstrating how they perform it. Thus, the cognitive behavioral theory was applied, so that the participant can record the goals achieved weekly and monthly.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-06-02
• Primary completion: 2023-09-11
• Completion: 2028-08-02
• First posted: 2025-05-08
• Last updated: 2025-05-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil