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NCT Number: NCT03641885

A Social Media Intervention on Promoting Oral Heath Among Iranian Adolescents

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.

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Key information

Conditions

Health Behavior Adolescent Behavior Behavior Parent-Child Relations

Age range

12 year–16 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Social Determinants of Health Research Center

Qazvin, 3419759811, Iran

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

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.

Treatment and study plan

mothers and adolescents

Behavioral

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.

adolescents

Behavioral

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.

Active Control

Behavioral

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.

Primary outcomes

  1. changes in dental busing behavior using a self-reported questionnaire

    Time frame: baseline, 1 Months, 6 months follow-up

    using a self-reported questionnaire

Secondary outcomes

  1. changes in self efficacy using a self-reported questionnaire

    Time frame: 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)

  2. changes in outcome expectancy

    Time frame: 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)

  3. changes in coping planning

    Time frame: 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)

  4. changes in action planning

    Time frame: 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)

  5. changes in risk perception

    Time frame: 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)

  6. changes in self-monitoring

    Time frame: 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)

  7. changes in intention

    Time frame: 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)

  8. changes in perceived social support

    Time frame: 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)

  9. Changes in Community Periodontal Index (CPI)

    Time frame: 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

  10. Changes in Turesky Modification of the Quigley-Hein Plaque Index

    Time frame: 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).

  11. Changes in Oral health related quality of life

    Time frame: 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.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Qazvin University Of Medical Sciences

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Registry information

Official study title

A Randomized Trial of a Social Media Intervention on Promoting Oral Heath Among Iranian Adolescents

Important dates

Study start
2018
Primary completion
2018
Study completion
2018
First posted
Aug 22, 2018
Registry last updated
Dec 11, 2018

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