The Effect of Oral Health Education in Pregnancy

Phase 2

Completed

• Conditions: Pregnancy
• Interventions: Behavioral: two educational sessions; Behavioral: no education

• Registration Number: NCT01652300
• Lead Sponsor: Gonabad University of Medical Sciences

Brief Summary

Periodontal diseased during pregnancy are associated with many unpleasant prenatal consequences including preeclampsia, preterm labor, and low birth weight (LBW). Treatment of such diseases and observance of oral and dental hygiene may to some large extent prevent such consequences. Unfortunately previous studies have shown that pregnant women have very little knowledge of oral and dental health implications. Given the fact that pregnancy my be a unique opportunity to initiate correct hygienic behaviors in young women, this paper has focused on studying the effects of oral and dental health education during pregnancy.

In this single blind clinical trial study,140 pregnant women receiving care from Khaje Rabi Regional Health Center in Mashhad city who were members of a community based multi-center were chosen by systematic clustering methods and randomly allocated into test and control groups. After intervention, two questionnaires were completed for demographic and pregnancy details of the participants. Knowledge, health belief and health behavior were assessed before intervention. The test group had two educational sessions lasting 1 hour, focused on oral and dental health and especially on oral and dental health during pregnancy. women in the control group received no education. Knowledge, health belief and health behavior were assessed immediately after and one month after intervention of all participants. Analysis of data was done using SPSS, t-test and chi-square tests.

Detailed Description

In this clinical trial study,140 pregnant women receiving care from Khaje Rabi Regional Health Center in Mashhad city who were members of a community based multi-center were chosen by systematic clustering methods and randomly allocated into test and control groups. After intervention, two questionnaires were completed for demographic and pregnancy details of the participants. Knowledge, health belief and health behavior were assessed before intervention. The test group had two educational sessions lasting 1 hour, focused on oral and dental health and especially on oral and dental health during pregnancy. women in the control group received no education. Knowledge, health belief and health behavior were assessed immediately after and one month after intervention of all participants. Analysis of data was done using SPSS, t-test and chi-square tests.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2008-06
• Primary Completion: 2008-12
• Study Completion: 2008-12
• Status Verified: 2012-07
• Study First Submitted: 2012-07-17
• Study First Submitted QC: 2012-07-27
• Last Update Submitted: 2012-07-27
• Study First Posted: 2012-07-30
• Last Update Posted: 2012-07-30

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 142

Inclusion Criteria

• Spoke Persian
• minimum education margin of primary school studies
• Gestational age between 12 and 32 weeks
• lacked any type of physical or mental problem
• lacked of any disease that could prevent from taking dental care

Exclusion Criteria

• who did not attend the education sessions
• failed to complete the questionnaires
• receive any special education between post-test and stability test

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
test group	two educational sessions	For test group intervention was two educational sessions lasting 1 hour, focused on oral and dental health and especially on oral and dental health during pregnancy
control	no education	received no education

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Score of KAP about oral health	2 months

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Mums; 🇮🇷 Mashhad, Khorasan Razavi, Iran, Islamic Republic of