Oral Health Educational Program for Knowledge,Attitude,Practice of Oral Health Among Agroup of Egyptian School Girls

Oral Health Educational Program for Knowledge, Attitude and Practice (KAP) of Oral Health Among a Group of Egyptian School Girls in Ras Sedr - South Sinai

This study will demonstrate oral health educational program to egyptian school girls age from 12-14 years old to evaluate the change in the knowledge, attitude and practice of oral health

Study Overview

• Status: Unknown
• Conditions: Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: oral health educational program

Detailed Description

According to World Dental Federation 2017 oral health is defined as multi-faceted and include the ability to speak, smile, smell, taste, chew, swallow, and convey a range of emotions through facial expressions with confidence and without pain, discomfort, and disease of the craniofacial complex .Oral disease constitute a significant public health problem in developing countries due to their high prevalence, economic consequence and negative impact on the quality of the life of affected individual.

Estrogen cause change in the blood vessels and progesterone stimulate the production of inflammatory mediators which lead to increase of gingival inflammation appear as gingival enlargement, increase in gingival bleeding and crevicular fluid flow and microbial changes.

The oral health education is important tool to make the primary level of prevention. So the benefits from health education is to improve knowledge and awareness of children which results on developing favorable oral behavior and so favorable oral health status.

.As the school is consider a place for gathering large number of children so it is ideal place for conducing successful health education.

this study will Identify baseline oral hygiene knowledge, attitude and practice among 12-14 years old school children. then Record oral hygiene status by oral hygiene index simplified after that assess the effectiveness of oral health education in modifying oral health knowledge, attitude and practice

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Anticipated): 300

Contacts and Locations

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 12 years to 14 years (Child)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: Female

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

consecutive convenient sampling recruiting all girls attending the school in that day

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• girls age 12 - 14 years old

Exclusion Criteria:

• refusal to participate in the research

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Observational Models: Other
• Time Perspectives: Other

Number of groups / cohorts

1

Cohorts and Interventions

Group / Cohort	Intervention / Treatment
oral health educational program; poster for oral health education program for a group of egyptian school girls	Other: oral health educational program; poster education about the important of oral health status, different brushing technique, different tooth paste, the balanced diet, changes occur to their mouth during the puberty period

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
knowledge, attitude and practice of oral health	self reported questionnaire for knowledge, attitude and practice before and after oral health educational program	3 months
oral hygiene index simplified	record amount of plaque and calculus accumulation before and after oral health educational program	3 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Rana Abd El-Sattar Omar Ramadan
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: hassan ahmed, center of evidence based dentistry

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Anticipated): September 1, 2019
• Primary Completion (Anticipated): March 1, 2020
• Study Completion (Anticipated): June 1, 2020

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: November 9, 2018
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 9, 2018
• First Posted (Actual): November 14, 2018

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): November 14, 2018
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 9, 2018
• Last Verified: November 1, 2018

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: oral health promotion; oral health education; oral health education program; oral hygiene status; knowledge,attitude,practice; oral health knowledge,attitude,practice; oral hygiene knowledge,attitude,practice; knowledge,attitude,practice oral health; knowledge,attitude,practice oral hygiene; KAP
• Other Study ID Numbers: CEBD-CU-2018-07-04

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: Undecided
• IPD Plan Description: due to financial issue

Drug and device information, study documents

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