Oral Health Promotion: Youth as Agents Of Change

Sponsor
Virginia Commonwealth University (Other)
Overall Status
Withdrawn
CT.gov ID
NCT03947203
Collaborator
DentaQuest Institute, Inc. (Other)
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Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

This upstream communication study may aid in our understanding of the nature of the parent-adolescent relationship and how we can use this relationship to promote better oral health of the parents and adolescents.

Condition or Disease Intervention/Treatment Phase
  • Behavioral: Social media
N/A

Detailed Description

Given the proliferation of social media as a tool for health communication, this proposed pilot study will be conducted with adolescents and their parents in the greater Richmond area, including Petersburg, and examines whether disseminating oral health information to adolescents via Facebook will have a greater impact on their sharing of the message to their parents than providing them the information in written format- using a pamphlet. We hypothesize that parents in the Facebook arm of the intervention will be more likely to report receiving the oral health message from their child than those in the pamphlet arm. Further, this study investigates whether parents whose adolescents re provided the information via Facebook will have greater increase in intent to schedule dental appointments and dental appointment scheduling behaviors than parents whose children are in the pamphlet group. We hypothesize that parents in the Facebook group will report greater increase in dental appointment scheduling than those whose adolescents are in the pamphlet group. Lastly, we would like to explore whether parents and adolescents in the Facebook arm will have greater increase in oral health knowledge and greater decreases in perceived barriers to oral health activities, both which may be related to increases in parents' dental appointment scheduling.

Study Design

Study Type:
Interventional
Actual Enrollment :
0 participants
Allocation:
Randomized
Intervention Model:
Parallel Assignment
Masking:
None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose:
Health Services Research
Official Title:
Oral Health Promotion: Youth as Agents Of Change
Anticipated Study Start Date :
Oct 1, 2020
Anticipated Primary Completion Date :
Oct 1, 2021
Anticipated Study Completion Date :
Oct 1, 2021

Arms and Interventions

Arm Intervention/Treatment
No Intervention: Pamphlet

Provided with only a pamphlet containing educational material about oral health

Experimental: Social media

Provided pamphlet containing educational material about oral health and will have access to a private Facebook group, where we will share informational messages and content relating to oral health

Behavioral: Social media
Provided pamphlet and a private Facebook group where informational messages and content relating to oral health will be shared

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

  1. Communication [8 weeks]

    Sharing of health information measured as a count of shared oral health messages reported on a survey question.

  2. Appointment - child [8 weeks]

    Number of child dental appointments scheduled based on self-report

  3. Appointment - adult [8 weeks]

    Number of adult dental appointments scheduled based on self-report

Secondary Outcome Measures

  1. Oral health knowledge [Baseline to 8 weeks]

    Change in number of correct responses on a 12 item oral health knowledge and screening survey

  2. Perceived barriers [Baseline to 8 weeks]

    Change in number of barriers to oral health activities

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study:
12 Years to 18 Years
Sexes Eligible for Study:
All
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Yes
Inclusion Criteria:
  • enrolled in grades 7 through 12

  • between the ages of 12 and 18

  • currently living in the same household as their legal guardian(s) who agree to participate in this study

  • live in the greater Richmond and Petersburg area

  • uses a smartphone

  • has not had a dental appointment in the past 6 months

Exclusion Criteria:
  • not between the ages of 12 and 18

  • do not live with their legal guardian (s)

  • are not residents of the greater Richmond and Petersburg area

  • have had a dental appointment in the past six months

  • legal guardian does not agree to participate

Contacts and Locations

Locations

No locations specified.

Sponsors and Collaborators

  • Virginia Commonwealth University
  • DentaQuest Institute, Inc.

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Maghboobah Mosavel, MD, Virginia Commonwealth University

Study Documents (Full-Text)

None provided.

More Information

Publications

None provided.
Responsible Party:
Virginia Commonwealth University
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
NCT03947203
Other Study ID Numbers:
  • HM20014618
First Posted:
May 13, 2019
Last Update Posted:
Oct 14, 2020
Last Verified:
Oct 1, 2020
Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement:
No
Plan to Share IPD:
No
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Drug Product:
No
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Device Product:
No

Study Results

No Results Posted as of Oct 14, 2020