Oral Health Promotion: Youth as Agents Of Change

This upstream communication study may aid in our understanding of the nature of the parent-adolescent relationship and how we can use this relationship to promote better oral health of the parents and adolescents.

Study Overview

• Status: Withdrawn
• Conditions: Oral Hygiene
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Social media

Detailed Description

Given the proliferation of social media as a tool for health communication, this proposed pilot study will be conducted with adolescents and their parents in the greater Richmond area, including Petersburg, and examines whether disseminating oral health information to adolescents via Facebook will have a greater impact on their sharing of the message to their parents than providing them the information in written format- using a pamphlet. We hypothesize that parents in the Facebook arm of the intervention will be more likely to report receiving the oral health message from their child than those in the pamphlet arm. Further, this study investigates whether parents whose adolescents re provided the information via Facebook will have greater increase in intent to schedule dental appointments and dental appointment scheduling behaviors than parents whose children are in the pamphlet group. We hypothesize that parents in the Facebook group will report greater increase in dental appointment scheduling than those whose adolescents are in the pamphlet group. Lastly, we would like to explore whether parents and adolescents in the Facebook arm will have greater increase in oral health knowledge and greater decreases in perceived barriers to oral health activities, both which may be related to increases in parents' dental appointment scheduling.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Phase: Not Applicable

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 12 years to 18 years (Child, Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• enrolled in grades 7 through 12
• between the ages of 12 and 18
• currently living in the same household as their legal guardian(s) who agree to participate in this study
• live in the greater Richmond and Petersburg area
• uses a smartphone
• has not had a dental appointment in the past 6 months

Exclusion Criteria:

• not between the ages of 12 and 18
• do not live with their legal guardian (s)
• are not residents of the greater Richmond and Petersburg area
• have had a dental appointment in the past six months
• legal guardian does not agree to participate

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
No Intervention: Pamphlet; Provided with only a pamphlet containing educational material about oral health
Experimental: Social media; Provided pamphlet containing educational material about oral health and will have access to a private Facebook group, where we will share informational messages and content relating to oral health	Behavioral: Social media; Provided pamphlet and a private Facebook group where informational messages and content relating to oral health will be shared

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Communication	Sharing of health information measured as a count of shared oral health messages reported on a survey question.	8 weeks
Appointment - child	Number of child dental appointments scheduled based on self-report	8 weeks
Appointment - adult	Number of adult dental appointments scheduled based on self-report	8 weeks

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Oral health knowledge	Change in number of correct responses on a 12 item oral health knowledge and screening survey	Baseline to 8 weeks
Perceived barriers	Change in number of barriers to oral health activities	Baseline to 8 weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Virginia Commonwealth University
• Collaborators: DentaQuest Institute, Inc.
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Maghboobah Mosavel, MD, Virginia Commonwealth University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Anticipated): October 1, 2020
• Primary Completion (Anticipated): October 1, 2021
• Study Completion (Anticipated): October 1, 2021

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: May 9, 2019
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 9, 2019
• First Posted (Actual): May 13, 2019

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): October 14, 2020
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 9, 2020
• Last Verified: October 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: HM20014618

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

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