Knowledge and Behavior Toward Early Childhood Caries

Oral Health Beliefs, Knowledge, and Behavioral Attitudes of Egyptian Mothers Towards Early Childhood Caries

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT03693443

Enrollment

440

Registered

2018-10-03

Start date

2018-10-02

Completion date

2018-12-20

Last updated

2019-01-10

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Conditions

Early Childhood Caries

Keywords

knowledge, behaviors, Early childhood caries

Brief summary

400 mothers are at least 18 years of age who have at least a child with minimum age of 6 years or even younger will be selected from the outpatient clinics of October University for Modern Sciences and arts (MSA). The questionnaire will be administrated to obtain socio demographic information and to assess their oral health beliefs, knowledge, behaviors and the possible barriers for their accessing oral health care.

Interventions

BEHAVIORALearly childhood caries

a questionnaire evaluates the oral health beliefs, knowledge, and behaviors of a sample representing Egyptian mothers toward early childhood caries

Study design

Observational model

CASE_ONLY

Time perspective

CROSS_SECTIONAL

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

FEMALE

Age

18 Years to 50 Years

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

* mothers are at least 18 years of age who have at least a child with minimum age of 6 years or even younger

Exclusion criteria

* mothers are refuse to participate in the study or sign the consent

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
evaluation of the oral health beliefs, knowledge, and behavioral attitudes towards early childhood caries	3 months	data collected from the questionnaire

Countries

Egypt

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026