Dental Caries in Children
Conditions
Brief summary
The study aims to investigate the role of school teachers in care navigation and signposting dental caries in primary school children.
Detailed description
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.
Interventions
DIAGNOSTIC_TESTSignpost caries
Identify carious lesion according to ICCMS visual criteria
Sponsors
Khartoum Centre for Research and Medical Training
Study design
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
NONE
Intervention model description
non-randomized parallel design
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
5 Years to 8 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
Healthy school children between the ages of 5-8 years Regular school attender Lives in the local village Co-operative
Exclusion criteria
* known medical history or disability * irregular school attenders
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| untreated caries increment | 36 months | decay component of the Index of decayed, extracted and filled teeth for the groups (deft) |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| caries experience (deft) | 36 months | deft index (for entire group) |
| caries experience for the most affected one third (SIC index) | 36 months | SIC index (deft of the most affected one third of each group) |
| care index | 36 months | proportion of filled and extracted teeth (df/deft) |
Countries
Sudan
Outcome results
None listed