The Impact of School Teachers in Care Navigation and Signposting Dental Caries
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 307
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- untreated caries increment
研究概览
简要总结
The study aims to investigate the role of school teachers in care navigation and signposting dental caries in primary school children.
详细描述
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.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Non Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Diagnostic
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 5 Years 至 8 Years（Child）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Healthy school children between the ages of 5-8 years Regular school attender Lives in the local village Co-operative
排除标准
- •known medical history or disability
- •irregular school attenders
结局指标
主要结局
untreated caries increment
时间窗: 36 months
decay component of the Index of decayed, extracted and filled teeth for the groups (deft)
次要结局
- caries experience (deft)(36 months)
- care index(36 months)
- caries experience for the most affected one third (SIC index)(36 months)
研究者
Fadil Elamin
Doctor
Khartoum Centre for Research and Medical Training