Oral Health Care Guidance to Enhance Parent Confidence and Ability to Improve Toothbrushing Performance for Autistic Children
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 进行中（未招募）
- 入组人数
- 48
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- The 13-step toothbrushing assessment tool
研究概览
简要总结
Parents of autistic children have reported a lack of understanding by oral health care staff around delivery of oral health preventive habits for their children.
This study aims to investigate if oral healthcare training utilising the Mini Mouth Care Matters (MCM) programme designed for Special Education Settings (SES) enhances parent confidence in their ability to influence their child's oral health, increases toothbrushing episodes and reduces challenging toothbrushing behaviour of autistic children.
The participants of this study will be parents of children who have a confirmed professional diagnosis of Autistic Spectrum Disorder. Parents will be recruited via healthcare professionals who provide oral health promotion within SES. Special Education Settings will be randomised into one of two groups. Group one will receive 'delivering better oral health' advice. Group two will receive the MCM user intervention guide for oral healthcare.
A maximum of 30 parents will be recruited into each intervention arm. A maximum of 60 parents will be recruited to the study.
详细描述
Description of the Intervention:
The first national dental health survey for special schools in England shows that:
- At ages 5 and 12, compared to previous surveys in mainstream education, the proportion of children in special education with substantial plaque visible is almost double.
- Children aged 5 in special schools were twice as likely to have had one or more teeth extracted.
The Office of the Chief Dental Officer Special Education Settings Team has developed resources which focus on prevention for better oral health for children with learning disabilities, autism or both. Resources include information and tips to help parents and carers with frequent concerns such as: Am I using the right toothpaste? Have I got the right toothbrush? Is the environment right? Am I doing it right? The resources are available on the HEE hub e- Learning for Healthcare (e-LfH) through the link Mini Mouth Care Matters (Mini MCM) Special Education Settings (SES).
The participants of this study will be parents recruited through contact with Special Educational Settings designated for oral health promotion activity from the Special Care Dental Service. Parents invited to be included in the study will be parents of children aged 3 to 15 years, with a confirmed professional diagnosis of Autistic Spectrum Disorder.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Prevention
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Parent/Carer of an autistic child aged between 3 and 15 years Parent/Carer of an autistic child attending a Special Education Setting Parent/Carer with capacity to provide consent
排除标准
- •Parent/Carer that cannot adequately understand verbal explanations or information written in English
结局指标
主要结局
The 13-step toothbrushing assessment tool
时间窗: baseline and immediately after the intervention
The 13-step assessment tool identifies steps completed by parents or children, or steps not possible to complete. Parents will also be asked to record time spent toothbrushing.
The validated Parental-Caregiver Current Oral Health Behaviours Questionnaire (OHBQ).
时间窗: baseline
The OHBQ has been developed to measure attitudes and beliefs of parents around their child's dental health. A section to capture demographic data, with questions utilised in previous studies, has been incorporated in the questionnaire sheet above the OHBQ to explore oral health inequalities associated with socioeconomic status, which are widely observed in the literature6.
次要结局
未报告次要终点