Adolescent Behavior, Health Behavior, Parent-Child Relations
Conditions
Brief summary
Online social networking sites, such as Telegram, possess a number of useful features that could enhance oral health promotion interventions, including the ability of users to share personal information, which is aggregated and displayed to other users .This study is a longitudinal controlled trial that is designed to investigate the effectiveness of a multi-component intervention on improving oral health in adolescents and their mothers. Participants will be allocated in three groups with a) an intervention group in which mothers and children receive the intervention and questionnaires via Telegram, b) only the children receive the intervention via Telegram and mothers and children receive the questionnaires, and c) mothers and children are in active control group and only receive the questionnaires. The intervention package contains behavior change techniques targeting outcome expectancy, self-efficacy, action planning, coping planning, and self-monitoring. The active control group receives an information sheet regarding recommendations on Oral health behaviors. There will be 3 assessment points in time, baseline, 1 month and 6 months after the interventions. The primary outcome of this study is to estimate the dyadic mechanisms between mothers and their children regarding improving oral health. Secondary outcome is to investigate whether oral health behavior did improve in the intervention groups in general and also to find the psychological mechanism behind the changes during the time of the study.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALmothers and adolescents
The intervention package will be sent to mothers and adolescents via Telegram social media. It contains behavior change techniques targeting outcome expectancy, self-efficacy, action planning, coping planning, and self-monitoring. There will be 3 assessment points in time, baselines, 1 month and six months after interventions.
BEHAVIORALadolescents
The intervention package will be sent to only adolescents via Telegram social media. It contains behavior change techniques targeting outcome expectancy, self-efficacy, action planning, coping planning, and self-monitoring. There will be 3 assessment points in time, baselines, 1 month and six months after interventions.
BEHAVIORALactive control
The active control group receives an information sheet regarding recommendations on oral health behavior via telegram. There will be 3 assessment points in time, with 1 month and six months in between.
Sponsors
Qazvin University Of Medical Sciences
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
TRIPLE (Subject, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
12 Years to 16 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* aged 12 to 16 * possess a smartphone * able or willing to give informed consent
Exclusion criteria
* They are not engaged in other oral-health education or research program. * They have no physical and/or mental disabilities that will impede their ability to perform their own oral hygiene activities.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| changes in dental busing behavior using a self-reported questionnaire | baseline, 1 Months, 6 months follow-up | using a self-reported questionnaire |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| changes in outcome expectancy | baseline, 1 Months, 6 months follow-up | outcome expectancy will be assessed using a self-reported questionnaire with three items. All items are rated on a 5-point scale ranging from 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree) |
| changes in coping planning | baseline, 1 Months, 6 months follow-up | coping planning will be assessed using a self-reported questionnaire with five items. All items are rated on a 5-point scale ranging from 1 (not true) to 5 (totally true) |
| changes in action planning | baseline, 1 Months, 6 months follow-up | action planning will be assessed using a self-reported questionnaire with five items. All items are rated on a 5-point scale ranging from 1 (not true) to 5 (totally true) |
| changes in risk perception | baseline, 1 Months, 6 months follow-up | risk perception will be assessed using a self-reported questionnaire with three items. All items are rated on a 5-point scale ranging from 1 (very unlikely) to 5 (very likely) |
| changes in self-monitoring | baseline, 1 Months, 6 months follow-up | self-monitoring will be assessed using a self-reported questionnaire with four items. All items are rated on a 5-point scale ranging from 1 (not at all true) to 5 (totally true) |
| changes in self efficacy using a self-reported questionnaire | baseline, 1 Months, 6 months follow-up | self efficacy will be assessed using a self-reported questionnaire with four items. All items are rated on a 5-point scale ranging from 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree) |
| changes in perceived social support | baseline, 1 Months, 6 months follow-up | perceived social support will be assessed using a self-reported questionnaire with three items. All items are rated on a 5-point scale ranging from 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree) |
| Changes in Community Periodontal Index (CPI) | baseline, 1 Months, 6 months follow-up | The CPI scores are rated (0 = healthy gingiva, 1 = gingival bleeding, 2 = calculus, 3 = pocket from 4 to 5 mm, and 4 = pocket ≥6 mm |
| Changes in Turesky Modification of the Quigley-Hein Plaque Index | baseline, 1 Months, 6 months follow-up | The amount of plaque on each enamel block for each lingual and buccal surface is rated on a six point Likert-type scale ranging from 0 (no plaque) to 5 (plaque covering two-thirds or more of the crown of the tooth). |
| Changes in Oral health related quality of life | baseline, 1 Months, 6 months follow-up | The Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory TM (PedsQLTM) Oral Health Scale is used to examine Oral health related quality of life. The scale comprises five items. All responses are reverse scored and transformed into a 0-100-point scale with higher scores representing better Oral health related quality of life. |
| changes in intention | baseline, 1 Months, 6 months follow-up | Behavioral intention will be assessed using a self-reported questionnaire with four items. All items are rated on a 5-point scale ranging from 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree) |
Countries
Iran
Outcome results
None listed