Multi-Media Parent-based Intervention to Promote Dental Hygiene Among Young Children: BeReady2Smile (BR2S)

This application, BeReady2Smile, will promote dental health behavioral parenting strategies among parents by incorporating a behavioral program for their children. Parents use a multimedia coordinated oral health prevention intervention program to promote dental health targeted at parents of young children attending parenting education classes and families receiving home visiting services through Head Start. Once developed, BeReady2Smile will be field tested for usability and usefulness with a group of parents of young children. Parents will rate the level of support needed, confidence in the system, and ease of use at each stage in the development, initiation, and maintenance of the system.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Dental Caries in Children
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: BeReady2Smile Video and App

Detailed Description

Approximately one out of three 2- to 5-year-old children in the United States has experienced caries (tooth decay). The American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry and American Academy of Pediatrics provide recommendations for preventive strategies, and recognize that infant, toddler and early childhood oral health is one of the foundations upon which preventive education and dental care must be built to enhance the opportunity for a lifetime free from preventable oral disease. Parents struggle to adopt these preventive strategies at the same time that challenging behaviors emerge in children's psychological development. This combination can make it very difficult to build the foundation of oral health practices that the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry and American Academy of Pediatrics recommends. There is a strong body of evidence supporting the use of behavioral parenting strategies in dealing with child behavioral problems. The proposed project introduces behavioral parent training strategies in concert with efforts to address other known parental barriers to provide an effective vehicle to promote dental health with a universal prevention intervention.

This private/public collaboration between Oregon Research Behavioral Intervention Strategies, Oregon Research Institute & The Oregon Community Foundation will leverage resources and competencies to create a commercially viable coordinated oral health prevention intervention program to promote dental health targeted at parents of young children attending parenting education classes and families receiving home visiting services through Head Start. The program includes a video that can be shown in parenting education classes to engage parents on oral health and a mobile/web application to drive behavioral change.

In this Phase I application, the investigators propose developing a coordinated oral health prevention intervention program, "BeReady2Smile", including video and mobile/web- application. An initial proof of concept version of this program and reminder set will be developed in the Phase I project and then tested for feasibility/usability among parents of young children. BeReady2Smile will include video content that features demonstrations/content on encouraging brushing, proper loading of toothbrush, brushing duration and frequency, fluoride myths, and limiting sugar sweetened beverages and milk in baby bottles while in bed. BeReady2Smile will also include a mobile application built within a web-based infrastructure, so parents can participate in multi-media educational activities, develop dental health behavior plans, tailor features and receive feedback from the system on a secure website. The long-term goal of BeReady2Smile is to help parents provide the foundation for a lifetime free from preventable oral disease.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 50
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Oregon
    • Eugene, Oregon, United States, 97403
      • Oregon Research Institute

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Adults attending parent support groups with children 0-6 years.

Exclusion Criteria:

• none

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Allocation: N/A
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm

Intervention / Treatment

Experimental: BeReady2Smile Video and App; This arm will test the feasibility of the BeReady2Smile Video and App to promote dental health of young children with a parent education program.

Behavioral: BeReady2Smile Video and App; BeReady2Smile is a coordinated oral health prevention intervention program that includes video content that features demonstrations/content on encouraging brushing, proper loading of toothbrush, brushing duration and frequency, fluoride myths, and limiting sugar sweetened beverages and milk in baby bottles while in bed. BeReady2Smile will also include a mobile application built within a web-based infrastructure, so parents can participate in multi-media educational activities, develop dental health behavior plans, tailor features and receive feedback from the system on a secure website.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Satisfaction with BeReady2Smile	Satisfaction was assessed by participants' ratings on a 1-4 scale (from "Liked very much" to "Not at all liked") of the question "How much did you like BeReady2Smile for learning the information taught?"	Up to 16 weeks

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Attitudes toward Dental Behaviors: Importance and Intention to Brush Child's Teeth	Parental attitudes toward dental behaviors were assessed by four scales included in the questionnaires developed by Adair and colleagues (2004) including the 'Importance and Intention to Brush Child's Teeth' (five items). Response options range from 'strongly agree' (=1) to 'strongly disagree' (=5).	Baseline, up to 16 weeks
Attitudes toward Dental Behaviors: Parental Efficacy in Relation to Child Toothbrushing	Parental attitudes toward dental behaviors were assessed by four scales included in the questionnaires developed by Adair and colleagues (2004) that included Parental Efficacy in Relation to Child Toothbrushing' (six items). Response options range from 'strongly agree' (=1) to 'strongly disagree' (=5).	Baseline, up to 16 weeks
Attitudes toward Dental Behaviors: Perceived Seriousness of Tooth Decay in Children	Parental attitudes toward dental behaviors were assessed by four scales included in the questionnaires developed by Adair and colleagues (2004) that included Perceived Seriousness of Tooth Decay in Children' (seven items). Response options range from 'strongly agree' (=1) to 'strongly disagree' (=5).	Baseline, up to 16 weeks
Attitudes toward Dental Behaviors: Chance Control - Decay Occurs by Chance	Parental attitudes toward dental behaviors were assessed by four scales included in the questionnaires developed by Adair and colleagues (2004) that includes 'Chance Control - Decay Occurs by Chance' (five items). Response options range from 'strongly agree' (=1) to 'strongly disagree' (=5).	Baseline, up to 16 weeks
Application Usage	Activity logs tracked the use of the BeReady2Smile website with a time and date for every online activity.	up to 16 weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Oregon Research Behavioral Intervention Strategies, Inc.
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: David R Smith, PhD, Orbis

Publications and helpful links

Helpful Links

• Intervention Website

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): September 8, 2017
• Primary Completion (Actual): August 31, 2018
• Study Completion (Actual): August 31, 2018

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: July 19, 2018
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 16, 2018
• First Posted (Actual): August 20, 2018

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): November 24, 2021
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 23, 2021
• Last Verified: November 1, 2021

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Stomatognathic Diseases; Tooth Demineralization; Tooth Diseases; Dental Caries
• Other Study ID Numbers: DE027001-01

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: Undecided

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No